| From: | Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca> |
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| To: | pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Occasional Slow Commit |
| Date: | 2008-10-28 12:47:16 |
| Message-ID: | 20081028124716.GE13363@crankycanuck.ca |
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On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 05:23:37PM -0700, David Rees wrote:
> However, occasionally, processing time will jump up significantly -
> the average processing time is around 20ms with the maximum processing
> time taking 2-4 seconds for a small percentage of transactions. Ouch!
>
> Turning on statement logging and analyzing the logs of the application
> itself shows that step #4 is the culprit of the vast majority of the
> slow transactions.
My bet is that you're waiting on checkpoints. Given that you're on
8.3, start fiddling with the checkpoint_completion_target parameter.
0.7 might help.
A
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