Re: [Bizgres-general] Introducing a new linux - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Michael Stone
Subject Re: [Bizgres-general] Introducing a new linux
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Msg-id 20060426235352.GD31328@mathom.us
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In response to Re: [Bizgres-general] Introducing a new linux  ("Luke Lonergan" <llonergan@greenplum.com>)
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On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 04:33:40PM -0700, Luke Lonergan wrote:
>I¹m thinking about it, we¹re already using a fixed read-ahead of 16MB using
>blockdev on the stock Redhat 2.6.9 kernel, it would be nice to not have to
>set this so we may try it.

FWIW, I never saw much performance difference from doing that. Wu's
patch, OTOH, gave a big boost.

Mike Stone

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