Hello,
On Freitag, 28. M�rz 2003 10:16, Dmitri Lyssenko wrote:
>
> It appeared from the test that if the log writer is disabled (that I
> believed give me the best performance) the database starts flushing the data 
> cache very often...probably on each commit. 
> This guess is originated from the look at the "vmstat" output
> (however I might be wrong). As result having these 2 options together (SET
> LOG WRITER OFF and USE_O_DIRECT YES) gave me the worst performance.
> Is it right that the frequencity of the savepoints depends on the state of
> the log writer (disabled/enabled)...and therefore O_DIRECT should not be 
used with the log switched off?
>
I think any REAL database should flush the buffers on each and every commit. 
That's what commit is here for. 

Peter Willadt
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