Re: Why has postmaster shutdown gotten so slow?

From: Claudio Natoli <claudio(dot)natoli(at)memetrics(dot)com>
To: 'Tom Lane ' <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "'pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org '" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Why has postmaster shutdown gotten so slow?
Date: 2004-02-03 00:41:58
Message-ID: A02DEC4D1073D611BAE8525405FCCE2B55F2C3@harris.memetrics.local
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> Shutdown of an idle postmaster used to take about two or three seconds
> (mostly due to the sync/sleep(2)/sync in md_sync). For the last couple
> of days it's taking more like a dozen seconds. I presume somebody broke
> something, but I'm unsure whether to pin the blame on bgwriter or
> Windows changes. Anyone care to fess up?

AFAICS, Win32 changes for the past few days have been minimal, and pretty
much isolated to Win32. Happy to stand corrected, but I'd start by looking
elsewhere...

Cheers,
Claudio

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