Re: Details about pg_stat_bgwriter

From: Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Details about pg_stat_bgwriter
Date: 2010-06-09 07:09:50
Message-ID: 4C0F3E3E.6050805@2ndquadrant.com
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Thomas Kellerer wrote:
> I don't think we have a caching issue though, it's just one (regular)
> bulk import that does some heavy writes which we need to tune. Read
> performance is absolutely fine, but everything around vacuum and
> checkpointing seems to slow down the import massively.
> So would taking a snapshot before and after this import be the right
> way to start the analysis?

Sure. Might want to grab one at those two points, then at a point right
before the next big import happens, so that you have what a relatively
idle period looks like for comparison sake.

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Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD
PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support
greg(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com www.2ndQuadrant.us

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