Re: We really ought to do something about O_DIRECT and data=journalled on ext4 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Steve Singer
Subject Re: We really ought to do something about O_DIRECT and data=journalled on ext4
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Msg-id 4CFD8323.6030204@ca.afilias.info
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In response to Re: We really ought to do something about O_DIRECT and data=journalled on ext4  (Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: We really ought to do something about O_DIRECT and data=journalled on ext4
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On 10-12-06 06:56 PM, Greg Smith wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> The various testing that's been reported so far is all for
>> Linux and thus doesn't directly address the question of whether other
>> kernels will have similar performance properties.
>
> Survey of some popular platforms:
>

<snip>

> So my guess is that some small percentage of Windows users might notice
> a change here, and some testing on FreeBSD would be useful too. That's
> about it for platforms that I think anybody needs to worry about.

If you tell me which options to pgbench and which .conf file settings 
you'd like to see I can probably arrange to run some tests on AIX.



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