Re: [GENERAL] server gets slow at certain time

2010-10-29 Thread Thom Brown
On 29 October 2010 14:34, AI Rumman wrote: > At present, > checkpoint_segment=3 > checkpoint_timeout=300 > > I'd recommend at least setting checkpoint_segments to 12 and you might want to increase checkpoint_timeout too, although not too high. Maybe try doubling it. And as Devrim pointed out, p

Re: [GENERAL] server gets slow at certain time

2010-10-29 Thread AI Rumman
At present, checkpoint_segment=3 checkpoint_timeout=300 On 10/29/10, Thom Brown wrote: > On 29 October 2010 13:24, AI Rumman wrote: > >> I am using Postgresql 8.1 in 8-cpu cores with 32 gb ram with CestOS 5. >> I have different DBs in the system and the large one is 12 GB and it is a >> CRM DB a

Re: [GENERAL] server gets slow at certain time

2010-10-29 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 18:24 +0600, AI Rumman wrote: > I am using Postgresql 8.1 in 8-cpu cores with 32 gb ram with CestOS 5. In addition to what Thom wrote, please note that checkpoints in pre-8.3 negative effect on disk I/O -- you may see spikes during checkpoints. -- Devrim GÜNDÜZ PostgreSQL

Re: [GENERAL] server gets slow at certain time

2010-10-29 Thread Thom Brown
On 29 October 2010 13:24, AI Rumman wrote: > I am using Postgresql 8.1 in 8-cpu cores with 32 gb ram with CestOS 5. > I have different DBs in the system and the large one is 12 GB and it is a > CRM DB and heavily used. > Every day after 1 pm the system gets slow and after analyzing the nmon > spr

[GENERAL] server gets slow at certain time

2010-10-29 Thread AI Rumman
I am using Postgresql 8.1 in 8-cpu cores with 32 gb ram with CestOS 5. I have different DBs in the system and the large one is 12 GB and it is a CRM DB and heavily used. Every day after 1 pm the system gets slow and after analyzing the nmon spreadsheet, I found that IO spike at that period. Users w