Re: Checkpoints are occurring too frequently...

From: Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com>
To: Greg Patnude <gpatnude(at)hotmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Checkpoints are occurring too frequently...
Date: 2005-07-12 18:05:22
Message-ID: 1121191522.8208.231.camel@state.g2switchworks.com
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On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 13:04, Greg Patnude wrote:
> LOG: checkpoints are occurring too frequently (19 seconds apart)
> HINT: Consider increasing the configuration parameter
> "checkpoint_segments".
> LOG: checkpoints are occurring too frequently (12 seconds apart)
> HINT: Consider increasing the configuration parameter
> "checkpoint_segments".
> LOG: checkpoints are occurring too frequently (12 seconds apart)
> HINT: Consider increasing the configuration parameter
> "checkpoint_segments".
> LOG: checkpoints are occurring too frequently (11 seconds apart)
> HINT: Consider increasing the configuration parameter
> "checkpoint_segments".
> LOG: checkpoints are occurring too frequently (12 seconds apart)
> HINT: Consider increasing the configuration parameter
> "checkpoint_segments".
>
> What does this mean and what causes it ???

Lots of updates or inserts.

What are you doing with your database? Are you running some application
that is doing a lot of small inserts maybe?

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