On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Jeff Janes <jeff.ja...@gmail.com> wrote: > Do we know why anti-wraparound uses so many resources in the first place? > The default settings seem to be quite conservative to me, even for a system > that has only a single 5400 rpm hdd (and even more so for any real > production system that would be used for a many-GB database). > > I wonder if there is something simple but currently unknown going on which > is causing it to damage performance out of all proportion to the resources > it ought to be using.
I can't rule that out. Personally, I've always attributed it to the fact that it's (a) long and (b) I/O-intensive. But it's not impossible there could also be bugs lurking. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
