> I am re-running it with other tuning, notably cost-based vacuum
> delay and less frequent checkpoints, and it is a *lot* smoother.
> These take a full night to run, so I'll post more results when I
> have usefull stuff to show.
> This has proven to be a very interesting trip to benchmarkland...
[ rather late in my reply but I had to ]
Are you tuning mysql in a similar fashion ?
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