Re: Maximum transaction rate - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: Maximum transaction rate
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Msg-id 1237042794.25832.0.camel@jd-laptop.pragmaticzealot.org
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In response to Re: Maximum transaction rate  (Marco Colombo <pgsql@esiway.net>)
Responses Re: Maximum transaction rate  (Marco Colombo <pgsql@esiway.net>)
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On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 05:25 +0100, Marco Colombo wrote:
> Scott Marlowe wrote:

> Also see:
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/26/41
> but it seems to me that all this discussion is under the assuption that
> disks have write-back caches.
> "The alternative is to disable the disk write cache." says it all.

If this applies to raid based cache as well then performance is going to
completely tank. For users of Linux + PostgreSQL using LVM.

Joshua D. Drake

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