> I got the impression it takes them a long time to recover from the logs, so they likely haven't even gotten as far as log checkpointing. The OP starts out by

> I got the impression it takes them a long time to recover from the logs, so they likely haven't even gotten as far as log checkpointing. The OP starts out by talking about periodically dumping everything in RAM to disk. I’d say that’s your checkpointing.