Tom Lane wrote:
>
> But what I wanted to see was the curve of
> elapsed time vs shared_buffers?
>
Of course! (lets just write that off to me being pre coffee...).
With the patch applied:
Shared Buffers Elapsed vmstat IO rate
-------------- ------- --------------
400MB 101 s 122 MB/s
2MB 101 s
1MB 97 s
768KB 94 s
512KB 84 s
256KB 79 s
128KB 75 s 166 MB/s
Looks *very* similar.
Cheers
Mark