Re: Checkpoint segments too small

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Henrik Zagerholm <henke(at)mac(dot)se>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Checkpoint segments too small
Date: 2007-08-06 10:34:24
Message-ID: 20070806103424.GD24616@svr2.hagander.net
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On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 11:26:18AM +0200, Henrik Zagerholm wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I'm running 8.2.4 and I've started to get these messages and even
> though I googled for some answers I couldn't find any good info
> against the 8.2 code base.
>
> 2007-08-05 04:00:58.815 CEST LOG: checkpoints are occurring too
> frequently (17 seconds apart)
> 2007-08-05 04:00:58.815 CEST HINT: Consider increasing the
> configuration parameter "checkpoint_segments".
>
> Right now I use the default setting.
>
> Is there any idea of raising these at all if I can't move them to a
> separate disk?

Yes. Just make sure you have enough diskspace for them before you do it.

//Magnus

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