Re: Dell PowerEdge 2950 performance - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Vivek Khera
Subject Re: Dell PowerEdge 2950 performance
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Msg-id 5028FAF6-55B7-4347-AF6C-48133885037B@khera.org
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In response to Re: Dell PowerEdge 2950 performance  ("Luke Lonergan" <llonergan@greenplum.com>)
Responses Re: Dell PowerEdge 2950 performance
List pgsql-performance
On Aug 15, 2006, at 2:50 PM, Luke Lonergan wrote:

> I don't know why I missed this the first time - you need to let
> bonnie++
> pick the file size - it needs to be 2x memory or the results you
> get will
> not be accurate.

which is an issue with freebsd and bonnie++ since it doesn't know
that freebsd can use large files natively (ie, no large file hacks
necessary).  the freebsd port of bonnie takes care of this, if you
use that instead of compiling your own.


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