On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 5:15 PM, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > Hi, > > Several places in our docs have blurbs like >> Note that on many systems, the effective resolution of sleep delays is >> 10 milliseconds; setting <varname>wal_writer_delay</> to a value that >> is not a multiple of 10 might have the same results as setting it to >> the next higher multiple of 10. > Afaik that's not the case on any recent operating system/hardware. So > perhaps we should just remove all of those blurbs, or just replace them > with something like "on some older systems the effective resolution of > sleep delays is limited to multiples of 10 milliseconds"?
Hmm, is that true? What we do we think the resolution is on modern systems? I would not have guessed that to be inaccurate. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
