Re: [PERFORM] Migration study, step 1: bulk write performanceoptimization

2006-03-22 Thread Tom Lane
"Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 10:04:49AM +0100, Mikael Carneholm wrote: >> It does ("LOG: checkpoints are occurring too frequently (2 seconds apart)") >> However, I tried increasing checkpoint_segments to 32 (512Mb) making it >> checkpoint every 15 second o

Re: [PERFORM] Migration study, step 1: bulk write performanceoptimization

2006-03-22 Thread Mikael Carneholm
6 13:55 To: Mikael Carneholm Cc: Simon Riggs; pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Migration study, step 1: bulk write performanceoptimization On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 10:04:49AM +0100, Mikael Carneholm wrote: > It does ("LOG: checkpoints are occurring too frequentl

Re: [PERFORM] Migration study, step 1: bulk write performanceoptimization

2006-03-22 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 10:04:49AM +0100, Mikael Carneholm wrote: > It does ("LOG: checkpoints are occurring too frequently (2 seconds apart)") > However, I tried increasing checkpoint_segments to 32 (512Mb) making it > checkpoint every 15 second or so, but that gave a more uneven insert rate >

Re: [PERFORM] Migration study, step 1: bulk write performanceoptimization

2006-03-22 Thread Mikael Carneholm
>>On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 15:59 +0100, Mikael Carneholm wrote: >> This gives that 10Gb takes ~380s => ~27Mb/s (with fsync=off), compared to >> the raw dd result (~75.5Mb/s). >> >> I assume this difference is due to: >> - simultaneous WAL write activity (assumed: for each byte written to the >> t