Re: WAL Archiving frequency

Thanks Tom,

I just didn't know if that was normal or not. I actually saw 4 WAL
files / minute today. I set checkpoint_segments = 128, so maybe that
will help.

Thanks,

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On Mar 31, 2006, at 8:47 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

> Brendan Duddridge <brendan@clickspace.com> writes:
>> I've noticed that it's archiving the 16 MB wal files about once every
>> minute. Is this normal? There's a huge number of files in my
>> wal_archives directory now.
>> Is there a parameter to tell it not to archive so frequently? Or is
>> this nothing to be too concerned about?
>
> If you've got a reasonably active database, 16MB/minute is not an
> unlikely rate of WAL generation.  You can probably slow it down a
> bit by
> increasing the checkpoint-spacing parameters, but you can't just say
> "don't generate so much WAL please".  Either you want a log or you
> don't.
>
> Basically, you have to take base backups often enough that the total
> number of WAL archive files needed stays under your threshold of
> pain...
>
>             regards, tom lane
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