Re: Spread checkpoint sync

From: Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Spread checkpoint sync
Date: 2011-01-18 01:46:21
Message-ID: 4D34F0ED.6070902@2ndquadrant.com
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Should we be writing until 2:30 then sleep 30 seconds and fsync at 3:00?
>

The idea of having a dead period doing no work at all between write
phase and sync phase may have some merit. I don't have enough test data
yet on some more fundamental issues in this area to comment on whether
that smaller optimization would be valuable. It may be a worthwhile
concept to throw into the sequencing.

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