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Re: [HACKERS] Faster CREATE DATABASE by delaying fsync (was 8.4.1 ubuntu karmic slow createdb)

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Michael Clemmons <glassresistor@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-performance@postgresql.org, Hannu Krosing <hannu@2ndquadrant.com>, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
Date: 2009-12-29T02:55:37Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-performance 
On Tuesday 29 December 2009 03:53:12 Michael Clemmons wrote:
> Andres,
> Great job.  Looking through the emails and thinking about why this works I
> think this patch should significantly speedup 8.4 on most any file
> system(obviously some more than others) unless the system has significantly
> reduced memory or a slow single core. On a Celeron with 256 memory I
>  suspect it'll crash out or just hit the swap  and be a worse bottleneck. 
>  Anyone have something like this to test on?
Why should it crash? The kernel should just block on writing and write out the 
dirty memory before continuing?
Pg is not caching anything here...

Andres