Re: Questionaire: Common WAL write rates on busy servers.

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Questionaire: Common WAL write rates on busy servers.
Date: 2017-04-27 23:34:33
Message-ID: 20170427233433.eg5vwlvbqyc2nruh@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2017-04-28 01:29:14 +0200, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> I can confirm this observation. I bought the Intel 750 NVMe SSD last year,
> the device has 1GB DDR3 cache on it (power-loss protected), can do ~1GB/s of
> sustained O_DIRECT sequential writes. But when running pgbench, I can't push
> more than ~300MB/s of WAL to it, no matter what I do because of
> WALWriteLock.

Hm, interesting. Even if you up wal_buffers to 128MB, use
synchronous_commit = off, and play with wal_writer_delay/flush_after?

- Andres

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