Re: Performance on 8CPU's and 32GB of RAM - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers
Subject Re: Performance on 8CPU's and 32GB of RAM
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Msg-id 20070905210212.GA26941@mail.planetcobalt.net
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In response to Re: Performance on 8CPU's and 32GB of RAM  ("Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Performance on 8CPU's and 32GB of RAM
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On 2007-09-05 Scott Marlowe wrote:
> And there's the issue that with windows / NTFS that when one process
> opens a file for read, it locks it for all other users.  This means
> that things like virus scanners can cause odd, unpredictable failures
> of your database.

Uh... what? Locking isn't done by the filesystem but by applications
(which certainly can decide to not lock a file when opening it). And no
one in his right mind would ever have a virus scanner access the files
of a running database, regardless of operating system or filesystem.

Regards
Angar Wiechers
--
"The Mac OS X kernel should never panic because, when it does, it
seriously inconveniences the user."
--http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2004/tn2118.html

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