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

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 checkpo

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 b

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 che

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 > estimat

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. C