From: Tobias Brox <tobias@nordicbet.com>
To: Jim C. Nasby <jim@nasby.net>
Cc: Tobias Brox <tobias@nordicbet.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Swappiness setting on a linux pg server
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:39:22 +0200
Message-ID: <20061019163922.GD31916@oppetid.no> (raw)
[Jim C. Nasby - Thu at 11:31:26AM -0500]
> Yeah, test setups are a good thing to have...
We would need to replicate the production traffic as well to do reliable
tests. Well, we'll get to that one day ...
> The issue with pg_xlog is you don't need bandwidth... you need super-low
> latency. The best way to accomplish that is to get a battery-backed RAID
> controller that you can enable write caching on.
Sounds a bit risky to me :-)
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