Re: WAL + SSD = slow inserts?

From: desmodemone <desmodemone(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Skarsol <skarsol(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: WAL + SSD = slow inserts?
Date: 2013-12-05 15:06:35
Message-ID: CAEs9oFk4bFCA7cS=Q-EkN6joMbqwrGGpL8v8dU8d9S1rpA0HGA@mail.gmail.com
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Hello,
could you please post the postgresql version, the
postgresql.conf, the operative system used, the kernel version and the
filesystem used ?

Thank you

2013/12/5 Skarsol <skarsol(at)gmail(dot)com>

> I'm trying to increase the speed of inserts in a database that is on a not
> super fast storage system. I have installed a pair of SSDs and placed
> pg_xlog on them but am still getting inserts that take up to a second to
> complete, with .3 seconds being about average. Iostat doesn't show the SSDs
> stressed at all, and changing synchronous_commit doesn't seem to affect it
> one way or the other. Where would I look next for what could be causing the
> delay?
>

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