X-Original-To: pgsql-performance-postgresql.org@postgresql.org Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D3299FA4C1 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 02:51:40 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 53181-01 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 02:51:35 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from joeconway.com (wsip-68-15-9-201.sd.sd.cox.net [68.15.9.201]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7230A9FA4A6 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 02:51:35 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [192.168.4.40] (account jconway [192.168.4.40] verified) by joeconway.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with ESMTP-TLS id 3970120; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 22:51:34 -0700 Message-ID: <4490F566.5090706@joeconway.com> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 22:51:34 -0700 From: Joe Conway User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060501 Fedora/1.7.13-1.1.fc5 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Gorman CC: "Jonah H. Harris" , Greg Stark , Mark Lewis , pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Postgres fsync off (not needed) with NetApp References: <9A377C54-361D-4F01-BF7A-7632FBA3453C@hi5.com> <1150322085.31200.39.camel@archimedes> <873be7ay8u.fsf@stark.xeocode.com> <36e682920606142214i6a6532f3k1a895a784f7b16dc@mail.gmail.com> <6A9B730A-425A-456E-9913-031B652E6227@hi5.com> In-Reply-To: <6A9B730A-425A-456E-9913-031B652E6227@hi5.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200606/290 X-Sequence-Number: 19647 Dan Gorman wrote: > That makes sense. Speaking of NetApp, we're using the 3050C with 4 FC > shelfs. Any generic advice other than the NetApp (their NFS oracle > tuning options) > that might be useful? (e.g. turning off snapshots) I'm not sure if this is in the tuning advice you already have, but we use a dedicated gigabit interface to the NetApp, with jumbo (9K) frames, and an 8K NFS blocksize. We use this for both Oracle and Postgres when the database resides on NetApp. Joe