Hi,
thanks for all replys.
I've done a few tests.
Remounting the fs where $PGDATA lives with "forcedirectio"
(together with logging, that is default) did not help
(if not harm...) performance.
Doing what http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jkshah suggests:
wal_sync_method = fsync (unchanged)
wal_buffers = 128 (was 8)
checkpoint_segments = 128 (was 3)
bgwriter_all_percent = 0 (was 0.333)
bgwriter_all_maxpages = 0 (was 5)
and leaving everything else default (solarispackages from pgfoundry)
increased performance ~ 7 times!
Playing around with these modifications I find that it's
actually just the
wal_buffers = 128
alone which makes all the difference!
Quickly playing around with wal_buffers on Linux and Mac OS X
I see it influences the performance of my test a bit, maybe in the
10-20% range (I'm really doing quick tests, nothing systematic),
but nowhere near as spectacularly as on Solaris.
I'm happy so far, but I find it very surprising that this single
parameter has such an impact (only on) Solaris 10.
(my test program is a bulk inserts using PQputCopyData in large
transactions - all test were 8.1.3).
Bye, Chris