Re: [HACKERS] Performance while loading data and indexing

Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
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> > > fsync=true (Sad but true. Left untouched.. Will that make a difference on
> > > SCSI?)
> >
> > Definitely.  Have directly measured a ~ 2x tps throughput increase on
> > FreeBSD when leaving fsync off whilst performance measuring stuff
> > recently (PG 7.2.2).  Like anything it'll depend on workload, phase of
> > moon, etc, but it's a decent indicator.
> 
> I didn't know even that matters with SCSI..Will check out..

Cool.  When testing it had FreeBSD 4.6.2 installed on one drive along
with the PostgreSQL 7.2.2 binaries, it had the data on a second drive
(mounted as /pgdata), and it had the pg_xlog directory mounted on a
third drive.  Swap had it's own drive as well.

Everything is UltraSCSI, etc.  Haven't yet tested for a performance
difference through moving the indexes to another drive after creation
though.  That apparently has the potential to help as well.

:-)

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

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