Postgres Pro
Downloads
Home   >   mailing lists

Re: Swappiness setting on a linux pg server - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Tobias Brox
Subject Re: Swappiness setting on a linux pg server
Date
Msg-id 20061019163922.GD31916@oppetid.no
Whole thread Raw
In response to Swappiness setting on a linux pg server  (Tobias Brox <tobias@nordicbet.com>)
Responses Re: Swappiness setting on a linux pg server
List pgsql-performance
Tree view 
[Jim C. Nasby - Thu at 11:31:26AM -0500]
> Yeah, test setups are a good thing to have...

We would need to replicate the production traffic as well to do reliable
tests.  Well, we'll get to that one day ...

> The issue with pg_xlog is you don't need bandwidth... you need super-low
> latency. The best way to accomplish that is to get a battery-backed RAID
> controller that you can enable write caching on.

Sounds a bit risky to me :-)

pgsql-performance by date:

Previous
From: Tobias Brox
Date:
Subject: Re: Swappiness setting on a linux pg server
Next
From: "Jim C. Nasby"
Date:
Subject: Re: Swappiness setting on a linux pg server