Re: asynchronous commit feature - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Decibel!
Subject Re: asynchronous commit feature
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Msg-id 20070827201138.GM54309@nasby.net
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In response to asynchronous commit feature  ("Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: asynchronous commit feature  ("Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-performance
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 09:09:00AM -0400, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> I'm testing the new asynch commit feature on various raid
> configurations and my early findings is that it reduces the impact of
> keeping wal and data on the same volume.  I have 10 disks to play
> with, and am finding that it's faster to do a 10 drive raid 10 rather
> than 8 drive raid 10 + two drive wal.
>
> anybody curious about the results, feel free to drop a line.  I think
> this will be a popular feature.

With or without a write cache on the RAID controller? I suspect that for
many systems, a write-caching controller will be very similar in
performance to async commit.
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Decibel!, aka Jim Nasby                        decibel@decibel.org
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