Re: Re: Slower on Solaris (NOT that Red Hat thread anymore) - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Steve Wolfe
Subject Re: Re: Slower on Solaris (NOT that Red Hat thread anymore)
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Msg-id 002901c10009$48287080$50824e40@iboats.com
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In response to Re: Re: Red Hat to support PostgreSQL  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Linux Software RAID 1 Performance (was:Re: Re: Slower on Solaris)
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> Hrmm, well, we're running it with fsync disabled, and according to the
> docs, that should make the WAL_SYNC_METHOD irrelevant.  We had
> unacceptable performance with fsync enabled.

  I'm not as familiar with Solaris as I am with Linux, but I do recall
seeing benchmarks that show a significant speed increase in many
applications (as much as 40%) by using the "best" compiler optimization
flags - you may want to look at what it's being compiled with on your
machine.

steve



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