On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 08:10:56PM +0900, Takayuki Tsunakawa wrote:
> One question is the disk utilization. While bgwriter is fsync()ing,
> %util of WAL disk drops to almost 0. But the the bandwidth of
> Ultra320 SCSI does not appear to be used fully. Any idea?
That implies that fsyncing a datafile blocks fsyncing the WAL. That
seems terribly unlikely (although...). What OS/Kernel/Filesystem is
this. I note a sync bug in linux for ext3 that may have relevence.
Have a nice day,
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