Hi Jochen, yes, I had that impression too. But it is running. ...And has almost no effect. I changed all parameter to the most aggressive, but.... Before I restarted the server I had a percentage of writes by the bgwriter of less that 1 percent.
postgres=# select name,setting from pg_settings where name like 'bgw%'; name | setting -------------------------+--------- bgwriter_delay | 10 bgwriter_lru_maxpages | 1000 bgwriter_lru_multiplier | 10 Best... Uwe Uwe Bartels Systemarchitect - Freelancer mailto: uwe.bart...@gmail.com tel: +49 172 3899006 profile: https://www.xing.com/profile/Uwe_Bartels website: http://www.uwebartels.com On 23 March 2011 14:19, Jochen Erwied <joc...@pgsql-performance.erwied.eu>wrote: > Wednesday, March 23, 2011, 1:51:31 PM you wrote: > > [rearranged for quoting] > > > background writer stats > > checkpoints_timed | checkpoints_req | buffers_checkpoint | buffers_clean > | > > maxwritten_clean | buffers_backend | buffers_alloc > > > -------------------+-----------------+--------------------+---------------+------------------+-----------------+--------------- > > 3 | 0 | 99754 | 0 > > | 0 | 115307 | 246173 > > (1 row) > > buffers_clean = 0 ?! > > > But I don't understand how postgres is unable to fetch a free buffer. > > Does any body have an idea? > > Somehow looks like the bgwriter is completely disabled. How are the > relevant settings in your postgresql.conf? > > > -- > Jochen Erwied | home: joc...@erwied.eu +49-208-38800-18, FAX: > -19 > Sauerbruchstr. 17 | work: j...@mbs-software.de +49-2151-7294-24, FAX: > -50 > D-45470 Muelheim | mobile: jochen.erw...@vodafone.de > +49-173-5404164 > >