Re: [PERFORM] A Better External Sort? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Stone
Subject Re: [PERFORM] A Better External Sort?
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Msg-id 20051003215332.GS2241@mathom.us
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In response to Re: [PERFORM] A Better External Sort?  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 01:34:01PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
>> >Realistically, you can't do better than about 25MB/s on a
>> > single-threaded I/O on current Linux machines,
>>
>> What on earth gives you that idea? Did you drop a zero?
>
>Nope, LOTS of testing, at OSDL, GreenPlum and Sun.   For comparison, A
>Big-Name Proprietary Database doesn't get much more than that either.

You seem to be talking about database IO, which isn't what you said.


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