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Re: Spread checkpoint sync

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>

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From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-11-21T23:07:20Z
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  1. Add new buffers_backend_fsync field to pg_stat_bgwriter.

On 11/20/10 6:11 PM, Jeff Janes wrote:
> True, but I think that changing these from their defaults is not
> considered to be a dark art reserved for kernel hackers, i.e they are
> something that sysadmins are expected to tweak to suite their work
> load, just like the shmmax and such. 

I disagree.  Linux kernel hackers know about these kinds of parameters,
and I suppose that Linux performance experts do.  But very few
sysadmins, in my experience, have any idea.

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