Re: performance on new linux box - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Ben Chobot
Subject Re: performance on new linux box
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Msg-id DB8C9C6C-61FD-4C40-ACF7-6D5127D50849@silentmedia.com
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In response to Re: performance on new linux box  (Ryan Wexler <ryan@iridiumsuite.com>)
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On Jul 8, 2010, at 12:37 PM, Ryan Wexler wrote:

> One thing I don't understand is why BBU will result in a huge performance gain.  I thought BBU was all about power
failures?

When you have a working BBU, the raid card can safely do write caching. Without it, many raid cards are good about
turningoff write caching on the disks and refusing to do it themselves. (Safety over performance.) 

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