Re: High Performance/High Reliability File system on SuSE64 - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: High Performance/High Reliability File system on SuSE64
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In response to Re: High Performance/High Reliability File system on SuSE64  (Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>)
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Mark Kirkwood wrote:

> They seem pretty clean (have patched vanilla kernels + xfs for
> Mandrake 9.2/9.0).
>
> And yes, I would recommend xfs - noticeably faster than ext3, and no
> sign of any mysterious hangs under load.


The hangs you are having are due to several issues... one of them is the
way ext3 syncs. What kernel version are
you running?

Sincerely,

Joshua Drake



>
> best wishes
>
> Mark
>
> Christopher Browne wrote:
>
>> Do the patches work?  As far as I have heard, quite well indeed.  But
>> the fact of it not having been 'official' is a fair little bit of a
>> downside.
>>
>>
>>
>
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