On Jan 27, 2004, at 6:25 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Perhaps more to the point: all this is predicated on an assumption no
> longer particularly valid, which is that the kernel's ideas about disk
> write scheduling matter at all. A decent SCSI disk drive will pre-empt
> the kernel's ideas anyway by absorbing as many pending writes as it can
> and then doing its own write scheduling. fsync won't affect the
> drive's
> choices in the least, only allow us to find out when the drive is done.
>
> regards, tom lane
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Perhaps totally unrelated, as i've only read the last couple of posts
on this, but what does Postfix (the MTA) do? How does it handle this?
I trust Wietse implicitly to DTRT. If it were me I would ask him how he
handles the writes or at least check the Postfix src. *shrug* Just an
idea.
Chris Watson
M.M.
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Wichita, KS
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