| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Spread checkpoint sync |
| Date: | 2011-02-01 18:32:22 |
| Message-ID: | 201102011832.p11IWN519696@momjian.us |
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Kevin Grittner wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > I also think Bruce's idea of calling fsync() on each relation just
> > *before* we start writing the pages from that relation might have
> > some merit.
>
> What bothers me about that is that you may have a lot of the same
> dirty pages in the OS cache as the PostgreSQL cache, and you've just
> ensured that the OS will write those *twice*. I'm pretty sure that
> the reason the aggressive background writer settings we use have not
> caused any noticeable increase in OS disk writes is that many
> PostgreSQL writes of the same buffer keep an OS buffer page from
> becoming stale enough to get flushed until PostgreSQL writes to it
> taper off. Calling fsync() right before doing "one last push" of
> the data could be really pessimal for some workloads.
OK, maybe my idea needs to be adjusted and we should trigger an early
fsync if non-fsync writes are coming in for blocks _other_ than the ones
we already wrote for that checkpoint.
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
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