Re: Postgres 9.1.4 - high stats collector IO usage

On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> 2012/8/6 Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>:
>> That's not a good way of doing it, since you loose persistent storage.
>>
>> Instead, you should set the stats_temp_dir paramter to a filesystem
>> somewhere else that is tmpfs. Then PostgreSQL will automatically move
>> the file to and from the main data directory on startup and shutdown,
>> so you get both the performance of tmpfs and the persistent
>> statistics.
>
> we had to do it because our read/write of stat file created really
> high IO - and it was problem on Amazon :( - probably we had not this
> issue elsewhere

Uh. You realize that if you set stats_temp_dir, it only ever writes to
the persistent storage once, when you do "pg_ctl stop" (or
equivalent). Are you saying the shutdown took too long?

I've had to change that param many times on Amazon, but I've never had
a problem with the shutdown writes. (And I've seen it often enough on
dedicated hardware as well..)

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