Greg Smith-12 wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, tomrevam wrote:
> 
>> bgwriter_delay = 20ms                   # 10-10000ms between rounds
>> bgwriter_lru_maxpages = 1000            # 0-1000 max buffers
>> written/round
>> bgwriter_lru_multiplier = 5.0           # 0-10.0 multipler on buffers
>> scanned/round
> 
> These settings may be contributing to the problem.  You should never run 
> the background writer that frequently--it just wastes resources and writes 
> more than it should.  I'd suggest turning it off altogether 
> (bgwriter_lru_maxpages = 0) and seeing if things improve any, just to rule 
> that out as a potential source of issues.
> 
> 

The behavior of the system is the same with bg_writer_lru_maxpages = 0. Can
you
explain why transactions are sometimes synchronous even with the
synchrounous_commit
set to off?

Thanks,
Tomer
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