Re: Improve MMO Game Performance

From: "Albe Laurenz" <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>
To: "Alvaro Herrera *EXTERN*" <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: "Arvind Singh *EXTERN*" <arvindps(at)hotmail(dot)com>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Improve MMO Game Performance
Date: 2012-10-18 14:49:32
Message-ID: D960CB61B694CF459DCFB4B0128514C208902A46@exadv11.host.magwien.gv.at
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>> Are there any particular settings or methods available to improve
Just
>>> insert_table operations
>>
>> The obvious ones:
>> - Wrap several of them in a transaction.
>> - Increase checkpoint_segments.
>> - Set fsync=off and hope you don't crash.
>
> I think it would work to set asynchronous_commit=off for the
> transactions that insert moves. That way, the fsync flushes happen in
> the background and are batched. Raising wal_buffers is probably a
good
> idea, and keep an eye on how the walwriter is doing.

I guess you mean synchronous_commit=off :^)

Yes, I forgot that one.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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