Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Load distributed checkpoint patch

2006-12-21 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 6:05 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Takayuki Tsunakawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I consider that smoothing the load (more meaningfully, response time) has higher priority over checkpoint punctuality in a practical sense, because the users of a system benefit from

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Load distributed checkpoint patch

2006-12-21 Thread ITAGAKI Takahiro
Kevin Grittner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I consider that smoothing the load (more meaningfully, response time) has higher priority over checkpoint punctuality in a practical sense, I agree with that. I agree with checkpoint_time is not so important, but we should respect

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Load distributed checkpoint patch

2006-12-21 Thread Takayuki Tsunakawa
Hello, Mr. Grittner, From: Kevin Grittner [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have 3,000 directly connected users, various business partner interfaces, and public web entry doing OLTP in 72 databases distributed around the state, with real-time replication to central databases which are considered derived

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Load distributed checkpoint patch

2006-12-20 Thread Takayuki Tsunakawa
From: ITAGAKI Takahiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you use the same delay autovacuum uses? What do you mean 'the same delay'? Autovacuum does VACUUM, not CHECKPOINT. If you think cost-based-delay, I think we cannot use it here. It's hard to estimate how much

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Load distributed checkpoint patch

2006-12-20 Thread Bruce Momjian
ITAGAKI Takahiro wrote: Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, if I understand correctly, instead of doing a buffer scan, write(), and fsync(), and recyle the WAL files at checkpoint time, you delay the scan/write part with the some delay. Exactly. Actual behavior of checkpoint is

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Load distributed checkpoint patch

2006-12-19 Thread ITAGAKI Takahiro
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, if I understand correctly, instead of doing a buffer scan, write(), and fsync(), and recyle the WAL files at checkpoint time, you delay the scan/write part with the some delay. Exactly. Actual behavior of checkpoint is not changed by the patch.