Re: Checkpoint cost, looks like it is WAL/CRC - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Checkpoint cost, looks like it is WAL/CRC
Date
Msg-id 21290.1120162944@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Checkpoint cost, looks like it is WAL/CRC  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
Responses Re: Checkpoint cost, looks like it is WAL/CRC
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Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> What I'm confused about is that this shouldn't be anything new for 8.1.  Yet 
> 8.1 has *worse* performance on the STP machines than 8.0 does, and it's 
> pretty much entirely due to this check.

That's simply not believable --- better recheck your analysis.  If 8.1
is worse it's not because of page-dumping, because we are more efficient
on that than before not less so.  Perhaps there's another issue?
        regards, tom lane


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