Re: checkpointer continuous flushing

> I'd also like to see concurrent workloads with synchronous_commit=off -
> I've seen absolutely horrible latency behaviour for that, and I'm hoping
> this will help. It's also a good way to simulate faster hardware than
> you have.

It helps. I've done a few runs, where the very-very-bad situation is 
improved to... I would say very-bad:

medium3: scale=200 shared_buffers=4GB checkpoint_timeout=15min    max_wal_size=4GB warmup=1200 time=6000 clients=4
synchronous_commit=off
 flush sort |  tps | percent of seconds offline off   off  |  296 | 83% offline off   on   | 1496 | 33% offline off
on  | 1641 | 59% offline on    on   | 1515 | 31% offline
 

The offline figure is the percentage of seconds in the 6000 seconds run 
where 0.0 tps are reported, or where nothing is reported because pgbench 
is stuck.

It is somehow better... on an abysmal scale: sorting and flushing reduced 
the offline time by a factor of 2.6. Too bad it is so high to begin with. 
The tps is improved by a factor of 5 with either options.

-- 
Fabien.