Greetings, * Jeff Janes (jeff.ja...@gmail.com) wrote: > One way I found to speed up restore_command is to have another program run > a few WAL files ahead of it, copying the WAL from the real archive into a > scratch space which is on the same filesystem as pg_xlog/pg_wal. Then have > restore_command simply move (not copy) the requested files from the scratch > space onto %p. The intra-filesystem move completes much faster than a copy.
Right, that can definitely be a big help and is more-or-less what pgbackrest does too. > If it spends time waiting for blocks that need to be recovered into to get > read from disk, and you have enough RAM, you could speed it up by > pre-warming the file system cache. Something like: > > tar -cf - $PGDATA | wc -c Yeah, that's also a good idea. We've discussed having something in pgbackrest to basically go pre-load things off disk in advance of WAL replay, and I seem to recall someone had also written an external tool to do that. Thanks! Stephen
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