Re: Bumping block size to 16K on FreeBSD... - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Marc G. Fournier
Subject Re: Bumping block size to 16K on FreeBSD...
Date
Msg-id 20030828190430.H30178@ganymede.hub.org
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In response to Re: Bumping block size to 16K on FreeBSD...  (Thomas Swan <tswan@idigx.com>)
Responses Re: Bumping block size to 16K on FreeBSD...
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On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Thomas Swan wrote:

> Has anyone looked at changing the default block size across the board
> and what the performance improvements/penalties might be?  Hardware has
> changed quite a bit over the years.

I *think* that the reason for the performance improvement on FreeBSD is
that our FS block size is 16k, instead of 8k ... are there any other
OSs that have increased theirs?


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