Mark Wong <markw@osdl.org> writes:
> I do have bgwriter_delay increased to 10, per previous
> recommendation, which did smooth out the throughput graph
> considerably. I can continue to adjust those settings.
Please try a variety of settings and post your results. It would give
us some hard data to help in deciding what the defaults ought to be.
(I really doubt that the current defaults are reasonable...)
regards, tom lane