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From: Martin Marques <martin@marquesminen.com.ar>
To: Tomasz Ostrowski <tometzky@batory.org.pl>
Cc: rihad@mail.ru
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: full_page_writes = off?
Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2007 09:04:44 -0300
Message-ID: <47514DDC.70607@marquesminen.com.ar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071201114754.GA2552@batory.org.pl>
References: <4751150F.8080604@mail.ru>
	<20071201114754.GA2552@batory.org.pl>

Tomasz Ostrowski escribió:
> On Sat, 01 Dec 2007, rihad wrote:
> 
>> fsync = on;
>> synchronous_commit = off;
>> full_page_writes = off;
>> Thanks for any insights or clarifying missed points.
> 
> Also check whether a disks have write-caching turned off - it should.
> On Linux the command is:
> 	# hdparm -W /dev/sda
> 	/dev/sda:
> 	 write-caching =  0 (off)

Uh? That command as was written lacks an argument for -W (0/1). From the 
hdparm --help:

  -W   set drive write-caching flag (0/1) (DANGEROUS)

# hdparm -V
hdparm v6.9





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