On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 12:19 -0400, Brad Nicholson wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 12:12 -0400, Greg Smith wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Brad Nicholson wrote:
>
> > I'd be curious to see how you've got your background writer configured to
> > see if it matches situations like this I've seen in the past. The
> > parameters controlling the all scan are the ones you'd might consider
> > turning down, definately the percentage and possibly the maxpages as well.
>
>
> bgwriter_delay = 50 # 10-10000 milliseconds between
> rounds
> bgwriter_lru_percent = 20.0 # 0-100% of LRU buffers
> scanned/round
> bgwriter_lru_maxpages = 300 # 0-1000 buffers max
> written/round
> bgwriter_all_percent = 20 # 0-100% of all buffers
> scanned/round
> bgwriter_all_maxpages = 600 # 0-1000 buffers max
> written/round
I should add, there are 6 back ends running on this disk array
(different servers and different data partitions) with these bgwriter
settings.
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