Forum Post: Buffers Flushed And Backups?

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I've started monitoring certain things on our main database more proactively, and one thing I'm doing is tracking the _ActSummary table every 15 minutes or so. I noticed in promon that our buffers flushed stat was higher than I'd expected so wanted to track down when this is happening. I've just looked at the report and at 19:00 2667 buffers are flushed. 19:00 also happens to be when the online backup started. Am I right in assuming that the backup is causing this, or do I need to look further? Is it a concern? Progress 11.5.1 on Win 2012 R2. We have 4 APWs. Yes 4. And at the moment we have 0 buffers flushed at any other time. I am trying to build a case for turning off a couple of these APWs and using their resources elsewhere!

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