Re: [HACKERS] fsync method checking

Bruce Momjian wrote:

> write 0.000360
> write & fsync 0.001391
> write, close & fsync 0.001308
> open o_fsync, write 0.000924
>
>
That's 1 milliseconds vs. 1.3 milliseconds. Neither value is realistic -
I guess the hw cache on and the os doesn't issue cache flush commands.
Realistic values are probably 5 ms vs 5.3 ms - 6%, not 30%. How large is
the syscall latency with BSD/OS 4.3?

One advantage of a seperate write and fsync call is better performance
for the writes that are triggered within AdvanceXLInsertBuffer: I'm not
sure how often that's necessary, but it's a write while holding both the
WALWriteLock and WALInsertLock. If every write contains an implicit
sync, that call would be much more expensive than necessary.

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Manfred