Erik Jones <erik@myemma.com> writes:
> 8.2.5 on Solaris 10. Before we upgraded to 8.2.4 it was doing about
> 65 Mbs/sec. Interestingly, a while back we were running with the
> data directory mounted with forcedirectio and saw none of this, I'm
> guessing that fsync calls would have something to do with that?
Hmm ... no, because the stats file never gets fsync'd. I should think
that forcedirectio would have made things worse.
regards, tom lane