Log scrub-specific checkpoint progress during dirty-cache wait

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    • Type: Task
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • Priority: Minor - P4
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    • Component/s: Checkpoints
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    • Storage Engines - Persistence
    • 646.969
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       Context

      Before entering the critical section, checkpoint optionally waits in checkpoint wait reduce dirty cache (src/checkpoint/checkpoint_txn.c) while eviction reduces cache dirty toward eviction checkpoint target. That loop currently has no WT VERB CHECKPOINT PROGRESS output.

      Prepare and write-phase progress messages exist elsewhere, but scrub wait is silent. Reusing the write-phase helper would be misleading because write/walk/file counters are still near zero:

      Checkpoint has been running for N seconds, wrote X pages (Y MB), walked Z pages and checkpointed F files
      

      Motivation

      A long scrub wait looks like a hang or a quiet write phase. Engineers diagnosing slow checkpoints need a heartbeat that identifies scrub state and whether dirty is moving toward the target.

      Suggestions

      1. From the scrub wait loop (after each sleep), emit a scrub-specific progress message gated on WT PROGRESS MSG PERIOD.
      2. Add a dedicated helper (e.g. checkpoint scrub progress); do not reuse the write-phase checkpoint progress text.
      3. Include elapsed time, current dirty %, scrub target %, and bytes written while waiting. Suggested form:
        Checkpoint scrub has been running for N seconds, cache dirty X% (target Y%), wrote Z MB while waiting
        
      1. Keep this separate from prepare and write-phase messages so the phase is obvious in the log.

      Examples

      Desired:

      [WT_VERB_CHECKPOINT_PROGRESS]: Checkpoint scrub has been running for 40 seconds, cache dirty 28% (target 5%), wrote 120 MB while waiting
      

            Assignee:
            Sean Watt
            Reporter:
            Sean Watt
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