From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Cc: Dimitri <dimitrik.fr@gmail.com>
Cc: Erik Jones <erik@myemma.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Subject: Re: Shared buffers, db transactions commited, and write IO on Solaris
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:23:23 -0700
Message-ID: <200703291723.24061.josh@agliodbs.com> (raw)
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Erik,
Wow, thanks for the post.
We've just started testing the option of sizing shared_buffers bigger than
the database, and using forcedirectio in benchmarks at Sun. So far, our
experience has been *equal* performance in that configuration, so it's
*very* interesting to see you're getting a gain.
--
--Josh
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco
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