Re: [PERFORM] Replication Lag Causes

2014-11-04 Thread Stuart Bishop
On 2 November 2014 05:33, Mike Wilson wrote: > Any recommendations would be very helpful. Try using ionice and renice to increase the priority of the WAL sender process on the master. If it helps, you are lagging because not enough resources are being used by the sender process (rather than the

Re: [PERFORM] Replication Lag Causes

2014-11-03 Thread Felipe Santos
2014-11-02 19:16 GMT-02:00 Mike Wilson : > Thanks for the information Greg. > > Unfortunately modifying the application stack this close to the holiday > season won’t be an option so I’m left with: >1) Trying to optimize the settings I have for the query mix I have. >2) Optimize any long r

Re: [PERFORM] Replication Lag Causes

2014-11-02 Thread Mike Wilson
Thanks for the information Greg. Unfortunately modifying the application stack this close to the holiday season won’t be an option so I’m left with: 1) Trying to optimize the settings I have for the query mix I have. 2) Optimize any long running DML queries (if any) to prevent lag due to l

Re: [PERFORM] Replication Lag Causes

2014-11-02 Thread Mike Wilson
Load on the slave is relatively light. It averages about 1.0 due to some data ware house select queries running against it frequently. Previously only the load on the master seems to have affected our replication lag no matter what the slave was doing. In thinking about this a bit more, the

Re: [PERFORM] Replication Lag Causes

2014-11-01 Thread Valentine Gogichashvili
Hello Mike, what kind of load does the slave get? what does the recovery process do on the slave during the times when lag is being observed? Does it use 100% of the CPU? WAL can be replayed by only one process, so no need to increase the max_wal_senders. Cheers, -- Valentine Gogichashvili On

[PERFORM] Replication Lag Causes

2014-11-01 Thread Mike Wilson
I have two 9.3.4 PG instances that back a large internet website that has very seasonal traffic and can generate large query loads. My instances are in a master-slave streaming replication setup and are stable and in general perform very well. The only issues we have with the boxes is that wh