Re: Performance features the 4th

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>
Cc: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2003-11-07T16:41:32Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com> writes:
> However, I have not seen much evidence yet that the vacuum delay alone 
> does that much.

Gaetano and a couple of other people did experiments that seemed to show
it was useful.  I think we'd want to change the shape of the knob per
later suggestions (sleep 10 ms every N blocks, instead of N ms every
block) but it did seem that there was useful bang for little buck there.

			regards, tom lane