Re: Re[4]: Postgres is too slow?

"Thalis A. Kalfigopoulos" wrote on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 16:34:56 EDT
>On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Alex Pilosov wrote:
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> [SNIP]
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>Had the same problem with a disk and boosted its performance with hdparm (4->3
>5Mb/s). I don't know if this was the reason I started getting the message "-- 
>MARK --" in my syslog's files (20min intervals) or I just hadn't noticed them 
>earlier. Any idea what it means?

That is simply the syslogd timestamp (see man syslogd) telling you that
syslogd is alive.  Has nothing to do with tweaking using hdparm.

--Martin