From: Markus Schaber <schabi@logix-tt.com>
To: PostgreSQL Performance List <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Large tables (was: RAID 0 not as fast as
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:13:01 +0200
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Hi, Guy,
Guy Thornley wrote:
> Of course you could argue the OS should be able to detect this, and prevent
> it occuring anyway. I don't know anything about linux's behaviour in this
> area.
Yes, one can argue that way.
But a generic Algorithm in the OS can never be as smart as the
application which has more informations about semantics and algorithms.
Everything else would need a crystal ball device :-)
HTH,
Markus
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