Re: performance modality in 7.1 for large text attributes?

On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 03:03:43PM +0000, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> o WAL fsync() log commits and cleanup (aggregate throughput is great,
> but every once in a while someone waits while the paperwork gets done.
> Waiting may be due to processor resource competition)
> 
> o Underlying file system bookkeeping from the kernel. e.g. flushing
> buffers to disk etc etc.

I was going to suggest the same, but it's interesting that it happens
on reads as well.  I can't tell for sure from the graph, but it looks
like it happens fairly consistently - every Nth time.  I'd be curious
to see how this changes if you artificially slow down your loop, or
adjust your OS's filesystem parameters.  It may give some more clues.
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