From: Luke Lonergan <llonergan@greenplum.com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Chris Mair <list@1006.org>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org, markir@paradise.net.nz, "Josh Berkus" <josh@agliodbs.com>
Subject: Re: bad performance on Solaris 10
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 14:56:40 -0700
Message-ID: <C0598B28.20EDA%llonergan@greenplum.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060405214824.GB13673@surnet.cl>
Alvaro,
On 4/5/06 2:48 PM, "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> This essentially means stopping all bgwriter activity, thereby deferring
> all I/O until checkpoint. Was this considered? With
> checkpoint_segments to 128, it wouldn't surprise me that there wasn't
> any checkpoint executed at all during the whole test ...
Yes, many things about the Solaris UFS filesystem caused a great deal of
pain over the 10 months of experiments we ran with Sun MDE. Ultimately, the
conclusion was that ZFS is going to make all of the pain go away.
In the meantime, all you can do is tweak up UFS and avoid I/O as much as
possible.
- Luke
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