I was recently running defrag on my windows/parallels VM and noticed
a bunch of WAL files that defrag couldn't take care of, presumably
because the database was running. What's disturbing to me is that
these files all had ~2000 fragments. Now, this was an EnterpriseDB
database which means the WAL files were 64MB instead of 16MB, but
even having 500 fragments for a 16MB WAL file seems like it would
definitely impact performance.
Can anyone else confirm this? I don't know if this is a windows-only
issue, but I don't know of a way to check fragmentation in unix.
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Jim Nasby jim@nasby.net
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