From: Scott Carey <scott@richrelevance.com>
To: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
Cc: gryzman@gmail.com <gryzman@gmail.com>
Cc: \ <Andrej <andrej.groups@gmail.com>
Cc: \"" <"<Andrej <andrej.groups@gmail.com>
Cc: >, <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: random_page_cost vs ssd?
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:31:13 -0700
Message-ID: <C5DD6DA0.32FC%scott@richrelevance.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49B7CD6B.EE98.0025.0@wicourts.gov>
Echo. It was a typo.
On 3/11/09 11:40 AM, "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> wrote:
Scott Carey <scott@richrelevance.com> wrote:
> On 3/11/09 11:04 AM, "Andrej" <andrej.groups@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2009/3/12 Scott Carey <scott@richrelevance.com>:
>>> All tests start with 'cat 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches'
>> What's the content of '3' above?
> Google > *linux drop_caches* first result:
> http://www.linuxinsight.com/proc_sys_vm_drop_caches.html
>
> To be sure a test is going to disk and not file system cache for
> everything in linux, run:
> *sync; cat 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches*
The cited page recommends "echo 3" -- is that what you used in your
tests, or the "cat 3" you repeated specify? If the latter, what is in
the "3" file?
>> Please don't top post, and don't use HTML e-Mail :} Make your
>> quotes concise.
>>
>> http://www.american.edu/econ/notes/htmlmail.htm
Did you miss this part?
-Kevin
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