Re: Linux filesystem performance and checkpoint sorting

Mark Kirkwood <mark.kirkwood@catalyst.net.nz>

From: Mark Kirkwood <mark.kirkwood@catalyst.net.nz>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2011-02-04T23:31:51Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 05/02/11 07:31, Greg Smith wrote:
> Switching to a new thread for this summary since there's some much 
> more generic info here...at this point I've finished exploring the 
> major Linux filesystem and tuning options I wanted to, as part of 
> examining changes to the checkpoint code.  You can find all the raw 
> data at http://www.2ndquadrant.us/pgbench-results/index.htm

Awesome! Very useful results.

Are you going to do some runs with ext4? I'd be very interested to see 
how it compares (assuming that you are on a kernel version 2.6.32 or 
later so ext4 is reasonably stable...).

Cheers

Mark