On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 12:44 AM, mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Tomasz Ostrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On 2008-03-31 21:16, mark wrote: > > > > > is the query I am running , and it takes over 10 seconds to complete > > > this query... > > > update users set number_recieved=number_recieved+1 where > > > uid=738889333; > > > > Every time or only sometimes? > > i checked again, and it seems to be only sometimes.. and during these > times there are lot of other queries too running which I can see from > pg_stat_activity; > > Upgrade to 8.3 will help as checkpoint writing algorithms were optimized > > there for lots of RAM. > > I already am running 8.3.1 [ i mentioned in subject]. I am having the > default settings for those. can you pl. share the settings for check points: > > current settings all default > #checkpoint_segments = 3 # in logfile segments, min 1, 16MB > each > #checkpoint_timeout = 5min # range 30s-1h > #checkpoint_completion_target = 0.5 # checkpoint target duration, 0.0- > 1.0 > #checkpoint_warning = 30s # 0 is off >
this is what I have on pg_stat_bgwriter ; how much should I increase checkpoint_segment & checkpoint_completion_target to? thanks a lot! postgres=# select * from pg_stat_bgwriter; checkpoints_timed | checkpoints_req | buffers_checkpoint | buffers_clean | maxwritten_clean | buffers_backend | buffers_alloc -------------------+-----------------+--------------------+---------------+------------------+-----------------+--------------- 42 | 1051 | 8035125 | 21954 | 42 | 241519 | 10394696