Re: [GENERAL] Strange behaviour under heavy load

2007-03-29 Thread Dmitry Koterov
How to tune them? Now I have: checkpoint_segments = 5 # in logfile segments, min 1, 16MB each checkpoint_timeout = 900# range 30-3600, in seconds checkpoint_warning = 30 # in seconds, 0 is off No checkpoint warnings in pgsql logs. On 3/27/07, Oleg Bartunov wrote: hm

Re: [GENERAL] Strange behaviour under heavy load

2007-03-28 Thread Dmitry Koterov
Disc write activity timeline looks like the following: CHECKPOINT -> Large disc write (30-40M/s), 1 second -> 4-5 seconds: no read and write activity at all, but server works slow -> 2-3 seconds: disc write activity about 4-5 M/s -> restore normal speed On 3/28/07, Dmitry Koterov <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [GENERAL] Strange behaviour under heavy load

2007-03-28 Thread Dmitry Koterov
New information. When I run CHECKPOINT manually in psql console, effect is fully reproduced. So - it is a checkpoint slowdown. The quesion is - how to make CHECKPOINT work faster? On 3/27/07, Dmitry Koterov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How to tune them? Now I have: checkpoint_segments = 5

Re: [GENERAL] Strange behaviour under heavy load

2007-03-27 Thread Oleg Bartunov
hmm, looks like checkpoint ? Check checkpoint settings in postgresql.conf. Oleg On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Dmitry Koterov wrote: Hello. I have found that sometimes heavy loaded PostgreSQL begins to run all the queries slower than usual, sometimes - 5 and more times slower. I cannot reprocude tha

[GENERAL] Strange behaviour under heavy load

2007-03-27 Thread Dmitry Koterov
Hello. I have found that sometimes heavy loaded PostgreSQL begins to run all the queries slower than usual, sometimes - 5 and more times slower. I cannot reprocude that, but symptoms are the following: queries work very fast for 5-10 minutes, and after that - significant slowdown (every query, ev