Re: strange pauses

Hi

>> If I tail the logs, I see a steady stream of functions that took
>> longer then 5 seconds.  But every now and then I see nothing for 3
>> minutes and after that a whole bunch (about 20 - 30) queries all
>> finishing at the same second.
>
> Search this list for references to "checkpoints". If you run
> vmstat/iostat for a bit you should see bursts of disk activity at those
> times.
>
> Counter-intuitively you probably want *more* checkpoints (with less data
> to write out each time), but see the list archives for discussion. Also
> check the manuals for some background info.

We use a lot of checkpoints in our database, we don't care about these
much.  We think this is causing the checkpoint to write a lot of data at
checkpoint time.  Can we stop this behavior ?

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