On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 14:02 -0600, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> > say that checkpoints cause extra disk I/O. Is there a good way to
> > measure how much extra I/O (and WAL volume) is caused by the
> > checkpoints? Also, it would be good to know how much total I/O is caused
> > by a checkpoint so that I know if bgwriter is doing it's job.
>
> There's a patch someone just came up with that provides additional debug
> info about both bgwriter operation and checkpoints. I know it will at
> least tell you how much was written out by a checkpoint.
Excellent, that would answer a lot of my questions. I did some brief
searching and nothing turned up. Do you have a link to the discussion or
the patch?
Regards,
Jeff Davis