Re: [PERFORM] Questionaire: Common WAL write rates on busy servers.

On 2017-04-28 01:29:14 +0200, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> I can confirm this observation. I bought the Intel 750 NVMe SSD last year,
> the device has 1GB DDR3 cache on it (power-loss protected), can do ~1GB/s of
> sustained O_DIRECT sequential writes. But when running pgbench, I can't push
> more than ~300MB/s of WAL to it, no matter what I do because of
> WALWriteLock.

Hm, interesting.  Even if you up wal_buffers to 128MB, use
synchronous_commit = off, and play with wal_writer_delay/flush_after?

- Andres