On Fri, Sep 27, 2024 at 8:07 AM Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com> wrote:
tl;dr let's assume SSDs are popular and HDDs are the exception and flip our default
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Granted, there are other factors involved, and yes, perhaps we should tweak some of the similar settings as well, but ranom_page_cost is the one setting most out of sync with today's hardware realities. So I'll be brave and throw a number out there: 1.2. And change our docs to say wordage like "if you are using an older hard disk drive technology, you may want to try raising rpc" to replace our fairly-hidden note about SSDs buried in the last sentence - of the fourth paragraph - of the rpc docs.
+1
I suggest a slightly nicer comment in the default conf file, like "For spinning hard drives, raise this to at least 3 and test"
