Re: 9.0 Streaming Replication Problem to two slaves

From: Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Michael Best <mbest(at)pendragon(dot)org>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 9.0 Streaming Replication Problem to two slaves
Date: 2011-08-02 18:05:47
Message-ID: 1312308347.2538.56.camel@lenovo01-laptop03.gunduz.org
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On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 11:55 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote:

> > Is this likely that the disks are too slow on the replication
> > servers, or is something else happening, such as the restoration of
> logs is considerably slower than on the primary?
>
> Could be. Are the drives on the slaves much slower? I'd imagine a
> slave with the same drive setup would be able to keep up.

We have a customer who generates 150+ xlogs per minute under daily load,
and our first HS installation failed just because of :

* Network was slow (10 Mbit), so could not keep up with WAL files.
* Disks were also slow on slave.

So yeah, that could be it.

Regards,
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Devrim GÜNDÜZ
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PostgreSQL Danışmanı/Consultant, Red Hat Certified Engineer
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