From: | "Worky Workerson" <worky(dot)workerson(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jim(at)nasby(dot)net> |
Cc: | pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Best COPY Performance |
Date: | 2006-10-31 20:22:11 |
Message-ID: | ce4072df0610311222l2d3edf91uf15119c53fe886d5@mail.gmail.com |
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> >I'm guessing the high bursts are checkpoints. Can you check your log
> > >files for pg and see if you are getting warnings about checkpoint
> > >frequency? You can get some mileage here by increasing wal files.
> >
> > Nope, nothing in the log. I have set:
> > wal_buffers=128
> > checkpoint_segments=128
> > checkpoint_timeout=3000
> > which I thought was rather generous. Perhaps I should set it even
> > higher for the loads?
>
> But depending on your shared_buffer and bgwriter settings (as well as
> how much WAL traffic you're generating, you could still end up with big
> slugs of work to be done when checkpoints happen.
>
> If you set checkpoint_warning to 3001, you'll see exactly when
> checkpoints are happening, so you can determine if that's an issue.
I did that, and I get two log messages, seeing checkpoints happening
at 316 and 147 seconds apart on my load of a 1.9 GB file. Is this "an
issue"?
Thanks!
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