Re: Rapidly decaying performance repopulating a large table

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Try upping your checkpoint segments.  Some folks find fairly large
>  numbers like 50 to 100 to be helpful.  Each segment = 16Megs, so be
>  sure not to run your system out of drive space while increasing it.
>

Ahh, much more progress. Upping the segments to 50, timeout to 30m and
completion target to 0.9 has improved average copy time to between 2
and 10 seconds, which is definitely an improvement. Thanks for the
help. Any other random thoughts while you're at it? :)

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