| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | bruce(at)momjian(dot)us |
| Cc: | Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>, Phoenix Kiula <phoenix(dot)kiula(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] PG quitting sporadically!! |
| Date: | 2008-02-16 21:14:46 |
| Message-ID: | 200802162114.m1GLEk209238@momjian.us |
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bruce wrote:
> Greg Smith wrote:
> > On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Phoenix Kiula wrote:
> >
> > > Suddenly, the postmaster either hogs up memory or just croaks and
> > > doesn't respond. The write process has become horribly slow.
> >
> > You should consider whether that's because a checkpoint is happening at
> > that point. You didn't mention anything about your disk+controller
> > information to have an idea how likely that is. Consider increasing
> > checkpoint_warning=3600 so that you'll always get a note in the logs when
> > a checkpoint happens; if those line up with your client disconnects that
> > will be telling you something.
>
> Oh, that is a creative use to get checkpoint_warning to log all
> checkpoints. I have added a documentation mention about that.
Oh, we added log_checkpoint in 8.3 so there is no need to do that now
--- patch reverted.
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