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From: Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>
To: Albe Laurenz <laurenz.albe@wien.gv.at>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Performance increase with elevator=deadline
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:47:17 +0100
Message-ID: <878wzkh2iy.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D960CB61B694CF459DCFB4B0128514C201FA62C8@exadv11.host.magwien.gv.at>
References: <D960CB61B694CF459DCFB4B0128514C201FA62C8@exadv11.host.magwien.gv.at>

"Albe Laurenz" <laurenz.albe@wien.gv.at> writes:

> This refers to the performance problem reported in
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2008-04/msg00052.php
>
> After some time of trial and error we found that changing the I/O scheduling
> algorithm to "deadline" improved I/O performance by a factor 4 (!) for
> this specific load test.

What was the algorithm before?

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  Gregory Stark
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