Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> I'm seeing this kind of "performance plunge" on 8.1cvs in one of every 3
> runs.
> It's obviously a serious stability issue, whatever is causing it.
I concur with the upthread suggestion that it may come from not doing
checkpoints in a realistic fashion, thereby allowing too much queued
I/O work to build up. What happens if you set the checkpoint interval
to 5 or 10 minutes?
regards, tom lane
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