Re: What O/S or hardware feature would be useful for databases? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Greg Smith
Subject Re: What O/S or hardware feature would be useful for databases?
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Msg-id Pine.GSO.4.64.0706170113010.29262@westnet.com
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In response to Re: What O/S or hardware feature would be useful for databases?  (Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>)
Responses Re: What O/S or hardware feature would be useful for databases?  (Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>)
Re: What O/S or hardware feature would be useful for databases?  ("Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure@gmail.com>)
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On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, Ron Johnson wrote:

> Anyway... databases are always(?) IO bound.  I'd try to figure out how to
> make a bigger hose (or more hoses) between the spindles and the mobo.

What I keep waiting for is the drives with flash memory built-in to
mature.  I would love to get reliable writes that use the drive's cache
for instant fsyncs, instead of right now where you have to push all that
to the controller level.

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* Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD

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