> Running the attached test program shows on BSD/OS 4.3:
>
> write 0.000360
> write & fsync 0.001391
I think the "write & fsync" pays for the previous "write" test (same filename).
> write, close & fsync 0.001308
> open o_fsync, write0.000
> Ideally that path isn't taken very often. But I'm currently having a
> discussion off-list with a CMU student who seems to be seeing a case
> where it happens a lot. (She reports that both WALWriteLock and
> WALInsertLock are causes of a lot of process blockages, which seems to
> mean that a l
