Re: [HACKERS] performance test

On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 10:27:50AM +0700, Vadim Mikheev wrote:
> You've seen disadvantages of our unperfect buffer manager -:)
> When server need in buffer for new data comming and there is
> no unused buffers in pool (i.e. - all buffers filled with new
> data and marked as dirty), server gets some dirty buffer,
> writes it AND FSYNC file. So, server does many fsyncs
> even with BEGIN/END while should do _one_ fsync at COMMIT.
>
> Having this problem fixed you wouldn't had so big difference
> between -F and BEGIN/END-no-F.

I see. But without BEGIN/END a huge difference remains to be expected,
doesn't it?

Michael
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