Re: Stuck spins in current

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Vadim Mikheev <vmikheev(at)sectorbase(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Stuck spins in current
Date: 2001-03-21 13:25:00
Message-ID: 200103211325.IAA14765@candle.pha.pa.us
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> > > BTW, I've got ~320tps with 50 clients inserting (int4, text[1-256])
> > > records into 50 tables (-B 16384, wal_buffers = 256) on Ultra10
> > > with 512Mb RAM, IDE (clients run on the same host as server).
> >
> > Not bad. What were you getting before these recent changes?
>
> As I already reported - with O_DSYNC this test shows 30% better
> performance than with fsync.
>
> (BTW, seems in all my tests I was using -O0 flag...)

Good data point. I could never understand why we would ever use the
normal sync if we had a data-only sync option available. I can imagine
the data-only being the same, but never slower.

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