diff --git a/innobase/log/log0recv.c b/innobase/log/log0recv.c
index f83a49d01a6..5cd5850d1a1 100644
--- a/innobase/log/log0recv.c
+++ b/innobase/log/log0recv.c
@@ -1019,7 +1019,8 @@ loop:
 			if (recv_addr->state == RECV_NOT_PROCESSED) {
 				if (!has_printed) {
 					fprintf(stderr, 
-"InnoDB: Starting an apply batch of log records to the database...\n");
+"InnoDB: Starting an apply batch of log records to the database...\n"
+"InnoDB: Progress in percents:");
 					has_printed = TRUE;
 				}
 				
@@ -1046,6 +1047,16 @@ loop:
 
 			recv_addr = HASH_GET_NEXT(addr_hash, recv_addr);
 		}
+
+		if (has_printed
+		    && (i * 100) / hash_get_n_cells(recv_sys->addr_hash)
+		    != ((i + 1) * 100)
+		             / hash_get_n_cells(recv_sys->addr_hash)) {
+
+		        fprintf(stderr, "%lu ",
+			  (i * 100) / hash_get_n_cells(recv_sys->addr_hash));
+
+		}
 	}
 
 	/* Wait until all the pages have been processed */
@@ -1059,6 +1070,11 @@ loop:
 		mutex_enter(&(recv_sys->mutex));
 	}	
 
+	if (has_printed) {
+
+	        fprintf(stderr, "\n");
+	}
+
 	if (!allow_ibuf) {
 		/* Flush all the file pages to disk and invalidate them in
 		the buffer pool */
diff --git a/innobase/srv/srv0srv.c b/innobase/srv/srv0srv.c
index 37bf59b6b9a..d77db335366 100644
--- a/innobase/srv/srv0srv.c
+++ b/innobase/srv/srv0srv.c
@@ -2417,7 +2417,19 @@ loop:
 
 background_loop:
 	/* In this loop we run background operations when the server
-	is quiet */
+	is quiet and we also come here about once in 10 seconds */
+
+	srv_main_thread_op_info = "flushing buffer pool pages";
+
+	/* Flush a few oldest pages to make the checkpoint younger */
+
+	n_pages_flushed = buf_flush_batch(BUF_FLUSH_LIST, 10, ut_dulint_max);
+
+	srv_main_thread_op_info = "making checkpoint";
+
+	/* Make a new checkpoint about once in 10 seconds */
+
+	log_checkpoint(TRUE, FALSE);
 
 	srv_main_thread_op_info = "reserving kernel mutex";