checkpoints too frequent

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Vivek Khera <khera(at)kcilink(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: checkpoints too frequent
Date: 2003-09-05 15:17:35
Message-ID: 200309051517.h85FHZw25603@candle.pha.pa.us
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Vivek, you reported recently that increasing sort_mem and
checkpoint_segments increased performance. Can you run a test to see
how much of that improvement was just because of increasing
checkpoint_segments?

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