Luis Amigo wrote:
> I would keep an eye on backend's mem usage, don't let them get out of memory
> nor go to swap.
> I would consider increasing wal_files, i think postmaster is telling you every
> minute
Actually, checkpoint_segments is the critical parameter when you have
lots of activity and are checkpointing too often. wal_files is longer
significant because we reuse WAL files. I think it may be removed in
7.3 anyway. I want to add this information to hardware performance
tuning paper.
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