Re: Spread checkpoint sync - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: Spread checkpoint sync
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Msg-id 4CE9A628.9080801@agliodbs.com
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In response to Re: Spread checkpoint sync  (Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>)
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On 11/20/10 6:11 PM, Jeff Janes wrote:
> True, but I think that changing these from their defaults is not
> considered to be a dark art reserved for kernel hackers, i.e they are
> something that sysadmins are expected to tweak to suite their work
> load, just like the shmmax and such. 

I disagree.  Linux kernel hackers know about these kinds of parameters,
and I suppose that Linux performance experts do.  But very few
sysadmins, in my experience, have any idea.

--                                  -- Josh Berkus                                    PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
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