[p4] Checkpoint

[Steven W. Orr]

On Tuesday, Sep 26th 2006 at 14:19 -0700, quoth Venters, Cheryl:

=>When we run a checkpoint at night, is that process using the temp
=>directory for anything? I ask because our checkpoints are currently
=>taking 2.5 hours and we're trying to find a way to speed them up. One
=>suggestion someone had was to point the temp directory to a different
=>drive. I wasn't sure that would make any difference.
=>
=> 
=>
=>Thanks.
=>
=>Cheryl

Hi Cheryl,

The convention for specifying the directory is the TMPDIR environment 
variable. It would depend on whether the convention is followed.

As for whether it would actually speed anything up depends on your drives. 
Keeping simultaneous scsi drives busy is (almost) always a big win due to 
the async nature of scsi. Lots of factors kick in besides that. Is the 
partition for temp over 85% full at peak? etc...