Re: effective_io_concurrency on EBS/gp2

Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>

From: Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>
To: Vitaliy Garnashevich <vgarnashevich@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2018-01-31T21:00:46Z
Lists: pgsql-performance
On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 4:03 AM, Vitaliy Garnashevich <
vgarnashevich@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> The results look really confusing to me in two ways. The first one is that
> I've seen recommendations to set effective_io_concurrency=256 (or more) on
> EBS.


I would not expect this to make much of a difference on a table which is
perfectly correlated with the index.  You would have to create an accounts
table which is randomly ordered to have a meaningful benchmark of the eic
parameter.

I don't know why the default for eic is 1.  It seems like that just turns
on the eic mechanism, without any hope of benefiting from it.

Cheers,

Jeff