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

On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Thalis A. Kalfigopoulos wrote:

> Had the same problem with a disk and boosted its performance with
> hdparm (4->35Mb/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?
Syslogd has an option to put a 'MARK' statement in log every so often.
'man syslogd' should tell you more.

-alex