[erlang-questions] mnesia sync_transactions not fsynced?

[Dan Gudmundsson]

As far as mnesia is concerned it is logged to disc. It have left
mnesia call chain and it's nothing
more mnesia can do, except sync the disk.
Which is a performance penalty that is not acceptable per transaction.

I have been reminded why the disc_log cache was implemented, when you
push transactions
in a short loop, you are pushing more transaction then what can be
pushed to disc.
So that everything was stuck in disc_logs message queue.
The way to improve that was to write larger chunks to the disc.
So removing the timeout in disc_log will probably not change the
situation only that message
will be stuck on message queue instead. It will still not be written
to the disc fast enough.

/Dan

On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 2:24 AM, Jon Watte <jwatte@REDACTED> wrote:
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> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Dan Gudmundsson <dangud@REDACTED> wrote:
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>> Disk log cashes writes as well so you can loose many writes when
>> halting the process.
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>> /Dan
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> This means that the implementation does not match the documentation. I think
> one or the other should change :-)
> Or the documentation writers have another understanding of the words "logged
> to disk" than I do :-)
> Sincerely,
> jw
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