Kindly ignore this post. It was an oversight - the wait times are in millisec and hence even if we manage to reduce these waits to 0, we will gain only 1000 msec of savings during a workload of 40min.
Regards On 16 Oct 2017 7:04 pm, "Purav Chovatia" <pur...@gmail.com> wrote: Hello, We are running workload on a EDB Postgres Advanced Server 9.6 and we see that 99% of the time is spent on WAL wait events: *System Wait Information WAIT NAME COUNT WAIT TIME % WAIT --------------------------------------------------------------------------- wal flush 564552 298.789464 41.67 wal write 521514 211.601124 29.51 wal file sync 521546 205.519643 28.66* Disk IO performance is not an issue and WAL is on a dedicated disk. Can somebody pls suggest if there is any possibility to improve this & how? We already tried wal_buffers=96m, wal_sync_method=open_sync/open_datasync, checkpoint_completion_target=0.9 but none of those helped. System has 32GB RAM and shared_buffers=8GB. All transactions are happening on a single table which has about 1.5m records and the table size is 1.7GB with just one PK index. Many Thanks Regards
