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Diffstat (limited to 'src/conn/conn_log.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/conn/conn_log.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/conn/conn_log.c b/src/conn/conn_log.c index f9c26a86b92..817e7197d11 100644 --- a/src/conn/conn_log.c +++ b/src/conn/conn_log.c @@ -471,7 +471,18 @@ __log_server(void *arg) session = arg; conn = S2C(session); log = conn->log; - locked = false; + + /* + * The log server thread does a variety of work. It forces out any + * buffered log writes. It pre-allocates log files and it performs + * log archiving. The reason the wrlsn thread does not force out + * the buffered writes is because we want to process and move the + * write_lsn forward as quickly as possible. The same reason applies + * to why the log file server thread does not force out the writes. + * That thread does fsync calls which can take a long time and we + * don't want log records sitting in the buffer over the time it + * takes to sync out an earlier file. + */ while (F_ISSET(conn, WT_CONN_LOG_SERVER_RUN)) { /* * Perform log pre-allocation. |