On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 12:41 PM, German Becker <german.bec...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Luis, The disk only has the WAL (pg_xlog ) directory. Brett, Here are the > mount options: > > /dev/sdb1 on /storage/sdb1 type ext3 > (rw,noatime,data=writeback,errors=remount-ro) > > BTW The original fs was ext4, now I am trying with ext3, with the exact > same results. No noticeable changes using diferent journal modes. > > I also tried disabling the journal altogether, which dramatically reduced > the disk usage, but nevertheless there was this latency spikes. > I haven't been following this thread and might have missed it, but did you show your checkpoint_completion_target?