>>>>> "MGF" == Marc G Fournier <scrappy@postgresql.org> writes:
MGF> Without a fair amount of testing, especially on other platforms, it most
MGF> likely won't happen in the distribution itself ... one of the things that
MGF> was bantered around for after v7.4 is released is seeing how increasing it
MGF> on the various platforms fairs, and possibly just raising the default to
MGF> 16k or 32k (Tatsuo mentioned a 15% improvement at 32k) ...
MGF> But, we'll need broader testing before that happens ...
Well... if we had a good load generator (many threads; many small,
medium, large transactions; many inserts; many reads) I'd run it to
death on my idle server until 7.4 is released, at which point that
server won't be idle anymore.
I tried building one of the OSDL DB benchmark, but after installing
the dependencies which are only announced by the failure of configure
to run, it errored out with a C syntax error... at that point I gave
up.
