PostgreSQL - checkpoints are occurring too frequently

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Issue

The following messages occur regularly in our /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_log/postgresql*-log files:

LOG:  checkpoints are occurring too frequently (4 seconds apart)
HINT:  Consider increasing the configuration parameter "checkpoint_segments".

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, 7
PostgreSQL 8, 9

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