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From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: wal_buffer tests in
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:57:10 -0700
Message-ID: <200507281457.10637.josh@agliodbs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87oe8n881i.fsf@stark.xeocode.com>
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Greg,

> You have wal_buffer set to 2048? That's pretty radical compared to the
> default of just 5. Your tests shows you had to go to this large a value
> to see the maximum effect?

No, take a look at the graph.   It looks like we got the maximum effect 
from a wal_buffers somewhere between 64 and 256.   On the DBT2 runs, any 
variation less than 5% is just noise.

-- 
--Josh

Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco



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