Re: Hot standby having high requested checkpoints?

I just now ran the following query a few times after each other on the
hot standby:

select now(), * from pg_stat_bgwriter;

Here are the results:

               now              | checkpoints_timed | checkpoints_req |
buffers_checkpoint | buffers_clean | maxwritten_clean | buffers_backend
| buffers_alloc

-------------------------------+-------------------+-----------------+--------------------+---------------+------------------+-----------------+---------------
  2012-03-01 23:24:49.099194+00 |             11546 |          145300
|         1000409459 |      38483026 |           170724 |
5058186 |     438703950
  2012-03-01 23:24:52.139176+00 |             11546 |          145300
|         1000409459 |      38483027 |           170724 |
5058191 |     438703975
  2012-03-01 23:24:59.129171+00 |             11546 |          145302
|         1000409459 |      38483081 |           170724 |
5058214 |     438704438
  2012-03-01 23:25:05.957532+00 |             11546 |          145304
|         1000409459 |      38483118 |           170724 |
5058230 |     438704689
  2012-03-01 23:25:09.519175+00 |             11546 |          145305
|         1000409459 |      38483160 |           170724 |
5058239 |     438704968
  2012-03-01 23:25:37.019194+00 |             11546 |          145308
|         1000409459 |      38483259 |           170724 |
5058255 |     438705566
  2012-03-01 23:25:40.659164+00 |             11546 |          145308
|         1000409459 |      38483268 |           170724 |
5058257 |     438705639
  2012-03-01 23:25:47.239281+00 |             11546 |          145309
|         1000409459 |      38483283 |           170724 |
5058266 |     438705815
  2012-03-01 23:26:23.858716+00 |             11546 |          145312
|         1000409459 |      38483393 |           170724 |
5058307 |     438706561
  2012-03-01 23:26:46.467493+00 |             11546 |          145317
|         1000409670 |      38483524 |           170724 |
5058354 |     438707619

in two minutes, I saw 17 checkpoints_req, and the number of
buffers_checkpoint didn't budge till the last few and even then not much.

checkpoint_segments = 256

- Brian F

On 03/01/2012 01:35 AM, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:53 PM, Brian Fehrle
> <brianf@consistentstate.com>  wrote:
>
>> I have two PostgreSQL 9.0.5 clusters, one is a master and the other is a hot
>> standby via streaming replication. I'm monitoring some stats on each and I'm
>> noticing something very odd. On the master, I get between 2 and 4 requested
>> checkpoints per hour, but on the hot standby I'm seeing between 200 and 300
>> requested checkpoints per hour.
> We don't do a restartpoint on the standby unless we see a checkpoint
> record, so that result should be impossible.
>
> So I'm guessing you're reading the stats wrong?
>