Re: Re[4]: Postgres is too slow?

Martin D. Weinberg <weinberg@osprey.astro.umass.edu>

From: Martin Weinberg <weinberg@osprey.astro.umass.edu>
To: "Thalis A. Kalfigopoulos" <thalis@cs.pitt.edu>
Cc: Alex Pilosov <alex@pilosoft.com>, Paul <magamos@mail.ru>, pgsql-general@postgresql.org, weinberg@osprey.astro.umass.edu
Date: 2001-06-22T20:54:07Z
Lists: pgsql-general
"Thalis A. Kalfigopoulos" wrote on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 16:34:56 EDT
>On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Alex Pilosov wrote:
>
> [SNIP]
>
>Had the same problem with a disk and boosted its performance with hdparm (4->3
>5Mb/s). I don't know if this was the reason I started getting the message "-- 
>MARK --" in my syslog's files (20min intervals) or I just hadn't noticed them 
>earlier. Any idea what it means?

That is simply the syslogd timestamp (see man syslogd) telling you that
syslogd is alive.  Has nothing to do with tweaking using hdparm.

--Martin