Re: Increased I/O / Writes

From: Lucas Possamai <drum(dot)lucas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Sergey Konoplev <gray(dot)ru(at)gmail(dot)com>, Postgres General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Increased I/O / Writes
Date: 2016-05-23 21:44:06
Message-ID: CAE_gQfW3dBiELcOppYN6v=8++pEeywD7iXGw-OT3doB8SXO4_A@mail.gmail.com
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On 24 May 2016 at 09:40, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 4:32 PM, Lucas Possamai <drum(dot)lucas(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
>
> > The spikes were happening because, after the reboot, the HUGE PAGES were
> > enabled.
> >
> > After disabling them, all got back to normal.
>
> Since you said earlier you were on PostgreSQL version 9.2, you must
> be talking about transparent huge pages. Yeah, be sure those are
> configured to be disabled in a way that "sticks" on your OS. When
> you get to version 9.4 you will notice that we support huge pages
> directly. That would be expected to work without problems even
> though TRANSPARENT huge pages are debilitating.
>

Yep.. you're right, Kevin.
Transparent huge pages...

We do have a script that disables it when the system is rebooted, but that
did not work.

Anyway, the problem was solved..
Cheers
Lucas

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