From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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To: | German Becker <german(dot)becker(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Disk latency goes up during certaing pediods |
Date: | 2013-07-26 20:27:14 |
Message-ID: | 20130726202714.GK14652@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org |
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German Becker escribió:
> Hi list,
>
> I am running Postgres 9.1 on Ubuntu 12.04. I have a dedicated disk for
> pg_xlog, using ext4 filesystem with journaling in writeback mode
> During high load times, the disk usage is arround 40%. The IO write time is
> constant at about 3ms. On certain occasions roughly once in 15 days, the
> IO write time goes up to about 10ms. This makes the disk usage go up to
> almost 100%, probably saturation, and the INSERTS DELETES UPDATES run
> considerable slower than normal.This lasts for about 2 hours and then the
> latency goes back to 3ms and everything is normal again.
> Has anyone seen this behavior? What could be causing the increase in
> latency?
Can you correlate these episodes with autovacuum activity? Or perhaps
backups are being taken (maybe a new base backup is taken every 15
days)?
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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services
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