Re: The results of my PostgreSQL/filesystem performance tests - Mailing list pgsql-performance

>>>>> "SC" == Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> writes:

>> I need to step in and do 2 things:
SC> Thanks for posting that.  Let me know if you have any questions while
SC> doing your testing.  I've found that using 16K blocks on FreeBSD
SC> results in about an 8% speedup in writes to the database, fwiw.

ok.. ignore my prior request about how to set that... i missed you had
included a patch.

Any recommendations on newfs parameters for an overly large file
system used solely for Postgres?  Over 100Gb (with raid 10) or over
200Gb (with raid 5)?


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