Re: [PERFORM] 7.4 Checkpoint Question

2007-11-29 Thread Brad Nicholson
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 16:14 +, Simon Riggs wrote: > On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 10:10 -0500, Brad Nicholson wrote: > > I have a legacy system still on 7.4 (I know, I know...the upgrade is > > coming soon). > > > > I have a fairly big spike happening once a day, every day, at the same > > time. It

Re: [PERFORM] 7.4 Checkpoint Question

2007-11-29 Thread Simon Riggs
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 10:10 -0500, Brad Nicholson wrote: > I have a legacy system still on 7.4 (I know, I know...the upgrade is > coming soon). > > I have a fairly big spike happening once a day, every day, at the same > time. It happens during a checkpoint, no surprise there. I know the > solut

Re: [PERFORM] 7.4 Checkpoint Question

2007-11-29 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 10:10:54AM -0500, Brad Nicholson wrote: > This is a _really _low volume system, less than 500 writes/hour. Normal > operation sees checkpoint related spikes of around 200-300 milliseconds. > We always checkpoint at the checkpoint timeout (every 5 minutes). > During this one

[PERFORM] 7.4 Checkpoint Question

2007-11-29 Thread Brad Nicholson
I have a legacy system still on 7.4 (I know, I know...the upgrade is coming soon). I have a fairly big spike happening once a day, every day, at the same time. It happens during a checkpoint, no surprise there. I know the solution to the problem (upgrade to a modern version), but what I'm lookin