Re: PG on NFS may be just a bad idea - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: PG on NFS may be just a bad idea
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Msg-id 20071001234651.GD9430@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: PG on NFS may be just a bad idea  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > http://blogs.netapp.com/dave/2007/08/oracle-optimize.html
> 
> Not a whole lot of technical content there, but pretty interesting
> nonetheless.  I *think* that the issues we're seeing are largely in the
> NFS client-side kernel code, so bypassing that stack as Oracle is doing
> might eliminate the problem.  Of course, there's a sizable amount of
> code to be written to do that ...

Yeah.  Next step we will be writing our own malloc.

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