On May 12, 2004, at 3:22 PM, jao(at)geophile(dot)com wrote:
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>> I don't see that. But I also set checkpoint segments to about 50 on
>> my big server.
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> But wouldn't that affect checkpoint frequency, not checkpoint cost
Seems reasonable. I suppose checkpointing doesn't cost as much disk
I/O as vacuum does. My checkpoints are also on a separate RAID volume
on a separate RAID channel, so perhaps that gives me extra bandwidth to
perform the checkpoints.