Re: Is the Log writer lazy by default?

[Hauke Fath]

"Tobias Oberstein" <Tobias.Oberstein@stripped> wrote:

> For HD2, which runs at 7200 rpms I expected an upper limit of
> 7200/60=120 synchronous writes. Oracle does as expected, whereas
> SAP DB does much more: over 600 writes/s. This can't be the case -
> something goes wrong here. Don't say I should be lucky to have as
> much performance;) I'd like to have it "durable" too.

On many IDE drives, you cannot disable the write-back cache.

"You get what you pay for".

        hauke

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