Re: SSDs with Postgresql?

From: Florian Weimer <fweimer(at)bfk(dot)de>
To: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Subject: Re: SSDs with Postgresql?
Date: 2011-04-21 15:44:04
Message-ID: 82bozza9tn.fsf@mid.bfk.de
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* Adrian Klaver:

>> Interesting. Is there an easy way to monitor WAL traffic in away? It
>> does not have to be finegrained, but it might be helpful to know if
>> we're doing 10 GB, 100 GB or 1 TB of WAL traffic on a particular
>> database, should the question of SSDs ever come up.
>
> They are found in $DATA/pg_xlog so checking the size of that
> directory regularly would get you the information.

But log files are recycled, so looking at the directory alone does not
seem particularly helpful.

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