Re: LVM and Postgres - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Rory Campbell-Lange
Subject Re: LVM and Postgres
Date
Msg-id 20051208112841.GA17840@campbell-lange.net
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In response to Re: LVM and Postgres  (Michael Stone <mstone+postgres@mathom.us>)
List pgsql-performance
On 06/12/05, Michael Stone (mstone+postgres@mathom.us) wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 07:52:25PM -0500, Alex Turner wrote:
> >I would argue that almost certainly won't by doing that as you will
> >create a new place even further away for the disk head to seek to
> >instead of just another file on the same FS that is probably closer to
> >the current head position.
>
> I would argue that you should benchmark it instead of speculating.

Is there a good way of benchmarking? We don't have much in the way of
test data at present.

Regards,
Rory

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