Re: Slow PITR restore

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On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:13:35 -0500
Jeff Trout <threshar(at)threshar(dot)is-a-geek(dot)com> wrote:

>
> On Dec 12, 2007, at 1:02 PM, Gregory Stark wrote:
> >
> > I'm not sure what you guys' expectations are, but if you're
> > restoring 5
> > minutes worth of database traffic in 8 seconds I wouldn't be
> > complaining.
> >
> > Depending on your transaction mix and what percentage of it is
> > read- only
> > select queries you might reasonably expect the restore to take as
> > long as it
> > took to generate them...
> >
>
> in this case it was 24hrs of data - about 1500 wal segments. During
> this time the machine was nearly complete idle and there wasn't very
> much IO going on (few megs/sec).

Exactly. Which is the point I am making. Five minutes of transactions
is nothing (speaking generally).. In short, if we are in recovery, and
we are not saturated the I/O and at least a single CPU, there is a huge
amount of optimization *somewhere* to be done.

Tom is also correct, we should test this on 8.3.

Joshua D. Drake

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