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Re: Huge iowait during checkpoint finish

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On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Greg Smith <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Basically, you have a couple of standard issues here:
>
> 1) You're using RAID-5, which is not known for good write performance.  Are
> you sure the disk array performs well on writes?  And if you didn't
> benchmark it, you can't be sure.

This can be doubly bad if he's now moved to a set of disks that are
properly obeying fsync but was on disks that were lying about it
before.

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