Re: [GENERAL] high throughput 9.3, master/slave question

2014-03-06 Thread Matthew Chambers
On 02/03/14 05:08, bricklen wrote: On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Matthew Chambers mailto:mchamb...@wetafx.co.nz>> wrote: Initially, I had my application servers using the slave for short, read only queries, but this turned out to be highly unstable. The slave would start refusi

Re: [GENERAL] high throughput 9.3, master/slave question

2014-03-01 Thread bricklen
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Matthew Chambers wrote: > > Initially, I had my application servers using the slave for short, read > only queries, but this turned out to be highly unstable. The slave would > start refusing connections, and the logs would fill with: > > ERROR: canceling statemen

[GENERAL] high throughput 9.3, master/slave question

2014-02-28 Thread Matthew Chambers
Hi, I have a postgres server that is fairly high traffic. (about 5MB/second in writes to SSD backed Netapp NFS storage). The outbound network traffic for this machine averages 61MB/second, but gets over 250MB/second during peal times. (includes data to slave + user requests) Initially, I h