Re: [OT] Slony Triggers pulling down performance?

On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 14:57 -0500, Chris Browne wrote:
> Ow(dot)Mun(dot)Heng(at)wdc(dot)com (Ow Mun Heng) writes:
> > Just wondering if my 'Perceived' feeling that since implementing slony
> > for master/slave replication of select tables, my master database
> > performance is getting slower.
> >
> > I'm constantly seeing a very high amount of IO wait. ~40-80 according to
> > vmstat 1
> >
> > and according to atop. (hdb/hdc = raid1 mirror)
> > DSK | hdb | busy 83% | read 1052 | write 50 | avio 7 ms |
> > DSK | hdc | busy 81% | read 1248 | write 49 | avio 6 ms |
>
> The triggers generate some extra I/O, as they go off and write tuples
> into sl_log_1/sl_log_2, so there's certainly a cost, there.
>
> When you pull data from sl_log_1/sl_log_2, that will have a cost, too.
>
> Replication does not come at zero cost...

I've been battling with this issus for the past week and that prompted a
few changes in the manner I pull the data and in the location where i
store the data. I ended up implementing partitioning on the 2 main
largest (problematic) tables and put it intp weekly rotation and moved
the broke the 3 disk raid1(1 spare) spare disk and used that as the
slony-I sl_log_1/sl_log_2 tablespace.

Now, everything is back to normal. (until I break it again!!) IO Wait is
hovering between 0-40%