Re: Postgres fsync off (not needed) with NetApp

From: Dan Gorman <dgorman(at)hi5(dot)com>
To: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
Cc: "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Mark Lewis <mark(dot)lewis(at)mir3(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Postgres fsync off (not needed) with NetApp
Date: 2006-06-15 06:01:28
Message-ID: 19AF7337-3F84-4753-AB6F-7193276C6F76@hi5.com
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Currently I have jumbo frames enabled on the NA and the switches and
also are using a the 32K R/W NFS options. Everything is gigE.

Regards,
Dan Gorman

On Jun 14, 2006, at 10:51 PM, Joe Conway wrote:

> Dan Gorman wrote:
>> That makes sense. Speaking of NetApp, we're using the 3050C with 4
>> FC shelfs. Any generic advice other than the NetApp (their NFS
>> oracle tuning options)
>> that might be useful? (e.g. turning off snapshots)
>
> I'm not sure if this is in the tuning advice you already have, but
> we use a dedicated gigabit interface to the NetApp, with jumbo (9K)
> frames, and an 8K NFS blocksize. We use this for both Oracle and
> Postgres when the database resides on NetApp.
>
> Joe

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