Re: Performance considerations for very heavy INSERT traffic

On Sep 12, 2005, at 6:02 PM, Brandon Black wrote:

> - splitting the xlog and the data on distinct physical
> drives or arrays
>
> That would almost definitely help, I haven't tried it yet.
> Speaking of the xlog, anyone know anything specific about the WAL
> tuning parameters for heavy concurrent write traffic? What little
> I could dig up on WAL tuning was contradictory, and testing some
> random changes to the parameters hasn't been very conclusive yet.
> I would imagine the WAL buffers stuff could potentially have a
> large effect for us.
>

you will want to make your pg_xlog RAID volume BIG, and then tell
postgres to use that space: bump up checkpoint_segments (and suitably
the checkpoint timeouts). I run with 256 segments and a timeout of 5
minutes. The timeout refletcs your expected crash recovery time, so
adjust it wisely....

Also, you should consider how you split your drives across your RAID
data channels on your test machine: I put each pair of the RAID10
mirrors on opposite channels, so both channels of my RAID controller
are pretty evenly loaded during write.

Vivek Khera, Ph.D.
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