Re: Huge number of disk writes after migration to 8.1

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
> Maybe the fact that the stat file is completely rewritten every 500 ms
> should be reconsidered, if in the future someone chooses to rewrite
> the stat system. We can reconsider this part then, as well.

Yeah, it's becoming pretty obvious that that design does not scale very
well. I don't immediately have any ideas about a better way though.

I am working on some marginal hacks like not writing more of the backend
activity strings than is needed, but it'd be nicer to think of a
different solution.

regards, tom lane