I would have gotten this out sooner but I'm having trouble with our infrastructure. Here's a link to a table of data I've started putting together regarding XLOG_BLCKSZ and wal_buffers on a 4-way Opteron system: http://developer.osdl.org/markw/pgsql/xlog_blcksz.html
There are a couple of holes in the table but I think it shows enough evidence to say that with dbt2 having a larger XLOG_BLCKSZ improves the overall throughput of the test. I'm planning on continuing to increase XLOG_BLCKSZ and wal_buffers to determine when the throughput starts to level out or drop off, and then start experimenting with varying BLCKSZ. Let me know if there are other things that would be more interesting to experiment with first. Mark ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster