Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion

Mario Weilguni wrote:
>>Interesting.
>>We have made COMPLETELY different experiences.
>>
>>There is one question people ask me daily: "When can we have sychronous 
>>replication and PITR?".
>>Performance is not a problem here. People are more interested in 
>>stability and "enterprise" features such as those I have mentioned above.
> 
> 
> I doubt that. Having deployed several 7.4 databases, the first customers ask 
> (of course not in technical speech, but in the meaning) when the problem with 
> checkpoint hogging system down is solved. This is a really serious issue, 
> especially when using drbd + ext3. 
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Well that seems to be part of the problem. ext3 does not scale well at 
all under load. You should probably upgrade to a better FS (like XFS). I 
am not saying that your point isn't valid (it is) but upgrading to a 
better FS will help you.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake


The system will become really unresponsive
> when checkpoint is running.
> 
> I heavily await 7.5 because of the background writer.
> 
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