Re: [PERFORM] Write-heavy pg_stats_collector on mostly idle server

2011-02-08 Thread Jakub Ouhrabka
Hi Josh, it's known issue, see this thread: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-02/thrd6.php#01290 HTH, Kuba Dne 8.2.2011 2:39, Josh Berkus napsal(a): Ooops. It looks like you are right, see ./src/backend/postmaster/pgstat.c 3c2313f4 (Tom Lane 2008-11-03 01:17:08

Re: [PERFORM] Write-heavy pg_stats_collector on mostly idle server

2011-02-07 Thread Josh Berkus
Anyone seen anything like this before? it is the expected behavior, IIRC OK. It just seems kind of pathological for stats file writing to be 10X the volume of data writing. I see why it's happening, but I think it's something we should fix. -- -- Josh

Re: [PERFORM] Write-heavy pg_stats_collector on mostly idle server

2011-02-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 14:58 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote: Anyone seen anything like this before? it is the expected behavior, IIRC OK. It just seems kind of pathological for stats file writing to be 10X the volume of data writing. I see why it's happening, but I think it's something we

Re: [PERFORM] Write-heavy pg_stats_collector on mostly idle server

2011-02-07 Thread Cédric Villemain
2011/2/8 Joshua D. Drake j...@commandprompt.com: On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 14:58 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote: Anyone seen anything like this before? it is the expected behavior, IIRC OK.  It just seems kind of pathological for stats file writing to be 10X the volume of data writing.  I see

Re: [PERFORM] Write-heavy pg_stats_collector on mostly idle server

2011-02-07 Thread Josh Berkus
Ooops. It looks like you are right, see ./src/backend/postmaster/pgstat.c 3c2313f4 (Tom Lane 2008-11-03 01:17:08 + 2926) if (last_statwrite last_statrequest) 70d75697 (Magnus Hagander2008-08-05 12:09:30 + 2927) pgstat_write_statsfile(false); This is a

Re: [PERFORM] Write-heavy pg_stats_collector on mostly idle server

2011-02-05 Thread Cédric Villemain
2011/2/4 Josh Berkus j...@agliodbs.com: All, Seeing an issue which is new on me.  On a mostly idle PostgreSQL server, the stats collector is rewriting the entire stats file twice per second. Version: 8.4.4 Server: Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.32 Server set up: ApacheMQ server.  25 databases, each of

[PERFORM] Write-heavy pg_stats_collector on mostly idle server

2011-02-04 Thread Josh Berkus
All, Seeing an issue which is new on me. On a mostly idle PostgreSQL server, the stats collector is rewriting the entire stats file twice per second. Version: 8.4.4 Server: Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.32 Server set up: ApacheMQ server. 25 databases, each of which hold 2-3 tables. Filesystem: Ext4,