Why not continuously fsync as fast as the drive will let you? There must be a drawback since nobody does this.
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it would kill your I/O throughout, I'd think (at least with magnetic media).
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fsync timers just seem wrong. A single transaction in the system must wait for the timer to expire.
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I read old Tandem papers during work on pg group commit, which are interesting. Robust cost model still difficult.