On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 5:43 PM Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> wrote:
> Greetings, > > * Tiemen Ruiten (t.rui...@tech-lab.io) wrote: > > checkpoint_timeout = 60min > > That seems like a pretty long timeout. > My reasoning was that a longer recovery time to avoid writes would be acceptable because there are two more nodes in the cluster to fall back on in case of emergency. > > > My problem is that checkpoints are taking a long time. Even when I run a > > few manual checkpoints one after the other, they keep taking very long, > up > > to 10 minutes: > > You haven't said *why* this is an issue... Why are you concerned with > how long it takes to do a checkpoint? > During normal operation I don't mind that it takes a long time, but when performing maintenance I want to be able to gracefully bring down the master without long delays to promote one of the standby's. > > The time information is all there and it tells you what it's doing and > how much had to be done... If you're unhappy with how long it takes to > write out gigabytes of data and fsync hundreds of files, talk to your > storage people... > I am the storage people too :) > > Thanks, > > Stephen >
