Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes: > I don't see something that happens every five minutes as any kind of > performance problem. I am not sure what Josh saw that made him want to > increase that.
I would have thought checkpoint_timeout would be something you would adjust depending on whether you want even performance (set it low and live with redundant i/o) or maximum throughput (set it high and live with i/o spikes and performance dropouts). Does that make sense? I suspect the origin of this meme might be with those benchmark graphs that were being posted here that had the checkpoint timeout set to 30m. That seems to be a bogus setting that's just hiding some of the i/o by postponing it until after the test ends. -- greg ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])