Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.191]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 902AA2E0042; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:48:58 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.191]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 32237-07; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:48:52 -0400 (AST) Received: from davinci.ethosmedia.com (unknown [209.128.84.226]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80AF32E3296; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:48:51 -0400 (AST) X-EthosMedia-Virus-Scanned: no infections found Received: from [63.195.55.98] (account josh@agliodbs.com HELO [192.168.2.3]) by davinci.ethosmedia.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with ESMTP id 14309303; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:53:30 -0800 From: Josh Berkus Organization: PostgreSQL @ Sun To: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [HACKERS] "distributed checkpoint" Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:49:06 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 Cc: Greg Smith , pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org References: <20071206220348.GM8451@alvh.no-ip.org> <200712121509.55019.josh@agliodbs.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200712130949.06970.josh@agliodbs.com> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200712/50 X-Sequence-Number: 4718 Greg, All: > The other problem was that the original description over-sold the feature > a bit. It said "prevent I/O spikes" when it actually just reduces them. > Still possible to have a spike, it probably won't be as big though. Your > call on whether correcting that mischaracterization is worth bothering the > translators over. Sounds like I'd better. Sending out this afternoon. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL @ Sun San Francisco