Re: Doc patch making firm recommendation for setting the value of commit_delay

On 15 November 2012 10:04, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
>> I would rather see this just turn into one of the things a more general
>> tuning tool knew how to do, executing against a fully setup system. Having a
>> useful implementation of commit_delay and useful docs on it seems like
>> enough of a jump forward for one release.  Moving fully into auto-tuning
>> before getting more field feedback on how that works out is pretty
>> aggressive.
>
> +1.

I am inclined to agree. I did attempt to use the instrumentation
macros to have commit_delay set adaptively at runtime, which would
have at least addressed this concern, but that just didn't work as
well as this.

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