Re: Slow restoration question - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Michael Stone
Subject Re: Slow restoration question
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Msg-id 20060503155938.GO31328@mathom.us
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In response to Re: Slow restoration question  (Jeff Trout <threshar@torgo.978.org>)
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On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 09:19:52AM -0400, Jeff Trout wrote:
>Bonnie++ is able to use very large datasets. It also tries to figure
>out hte size you want (2x ram) - the original bonnie is limited to 2GB.

Yes, and once you get into large datasets like that the quality of the
data is fairly poor because the program can't really eliminate cache
effects. IOW, it tries but (in my experience) doesn't succeed very well.

Mike Stone

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