Flushing schema tables is important for crash recovery (without a flush,
we might have sstables using a new schema before the commitlog entry
noting the schema change has been replayed), but not important for tests
that do not test crash recovery. Avoiding those flushes reduces system,
user, and real time on tests running on a consumer-level SSD.
before:
real 8m51.347s
user 7m5.743s
sys 5m11.185s
after:
real 7m4.249s
user 5m14.085s
sys 2m11.197s
Note real time is higher that user+sys time divided by the number
of hardware threads, indicating that there is still idle time due
to the disk flushing, so more work is needed.
Closes#9319
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