bruce wrote: > Greg Smith wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Phoenix Kiula wrote: > > > > > Suddenly, the postmaster either hogs up memory or just croaks and > > > doesn't respond. The write process has become horribly slow. > > > > You should consider whether that's because a checkpoint is happening at > > that point. You didn't mention anything about your disk+controller > > information to have an idea how likely that is. Consider increasing > > checkpoint_warning=3600 so that you'll always get a note in the logs when > > a checkpoint happens; if those line up with your client disconnects that > > will be telling you something. > > Oh, that is a creative use to get checkpoint_warning to log all > checkpoints. I have added a documentation mention about that.
Oh, we added log_checkpoint in 8.3 so there is no need to do that now --- patch reverted. -- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://postgres.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
