Derrick Lobo <[email protected]> wrote: >Robert Swindells <[email protected]> wrote >>Derrick Lobo <[email protected]> wrote: >>>Not sure if anyone else has experienced the below, postgres configs can be >>>shared if needed, we have a few database servers running on 7.12 and 9 >>> >>>We recently noticed some problems with timeouts on some postgres database >>>servers. The machines don't appear to be heavily loaded, although they are >>>being used steadily. What we're seeing is that the machine is working fine. >>>No swapping, load average is below 1, and then it doesn't accept database >>>connections for about 10-20 seconds, and any queries on active connections >>>fail to return for that same time period. I tried running these commands in a >>>screen to get a better sense of the system state when the problem occurs: >> >>What filesystem options are you using for wherever the database files >>are located ? Are you using wapbl(4) ? > >Rw,log,noatime are the options used
Thought it might be. I would not run a database on a filesystem with 'log' enabled, I think you will find that the delay is when it is flushing the log to disk.
