Re: Checkpoints are occurring too frequently...

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: gpatnude(at)hotmail(dot)com, "'Scott Marlowe'" <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Checkpoints are occurring too frequently...
Date: 2005-07-12 21:36:35
Message-ID: 42D437E3.8000508@commandprompt.com
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> The "factory default" has never been 1; AFAIR it's always been 3,
> and like many of the other defaults that's aimed for small-and-slow
> machines. If you're not short of disk space, something like 30
> is reasonable. (Note this can cost you 32MB per increment, so a
> setting of 30 means you're willing to invest up to a gigabyte of
> disk space in WAL. Time was when that was an astonishing amount
> of disk, but no more...)

As this is a fairly common problem, should we consider increasing the
default to 10?

J

>
> regards, tom lane
>
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