On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 4:50 AM Tiemen Ruiten <t.rui...@tech-lab.io> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 5:43 PM Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> wrote: > >> >> 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... >> > Right, but true only because they were "checkpoint starting: immediate". Otherwise the reported write time includes intentional sleeps added to honor the checkpoint_completion_target. A bit confusing to report it that way, I think. I am the storage people too :) > So, what did you say to yourself? Have you done fundamental benchmarking at the OS level, to see how fast you can write out 1-2 GB of data changes spread out randomly over a few hundred GB of data, when it is not coming from PostgreSQL? Cheers, Jeff