Re: Long Running Commits - Not Checkpoints

Brad Nicholson wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 12:19 -0400, Brad Nicholson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 12:12 -0400, Greg Smith wrote:
> > > On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Brad Nicholson wrote:
> >
> > > I'd be curious to see how you've got your background writer configured to
> > > see if it matches situations like this I've seen in the past.  The
> > > parameters controlling the all scan are the ones you'd might consider
> > > turning down, definately the percentage and possibly the maxpages as well.
> >
> >
> > bgwriter_delay = 50                     # 10-10000 milliseconds between
> > rounds
> > bgwriter_lru_percent = 20.0             # 0-100% of LRU buffers
> > scanned/round
> > bgwriter_lru_maxpages = 300             # 0-1000 buffers max
> > written/round
> > bgwriter_all_percent = 20               # 0-100% of all buffers
> > scanned/round
> > bgwriter_all_maxpages = 600             # 0-1000 buffers max
> > written/round
>
> I should add, there are 6 back ends running on this disk array
> (different servers and different data partitions) with these bgwriter
> settings.

Maybe it is running deferred triggers or something?

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