Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> This seems, um, hard to believe. Did he shut down the standard syncer
> daemon? I have never seen a Unix system that would allow more than
> thirty seconds' worth of unwritten buffers to accumulate, and would not
> care to use one if it existed.
Well it was Solaris so it didn't have the BSD 30s sync style strategy. But
this was a large NFS file transfer to another host on a 100Mb/s network. In
30s there could be a lot of writes buffered up.
I'm not saying the behaviour was ideal, and I don't know exactly why it
interfered with anything else. But I'm not entirely surprised either.
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greg