Re: Hardware/OS recommendations for large databases (

From: Michael Stone <mstone+postgres(at)mathom(dot)us>
To: Luke Lonergan <LLonergan(at)greenplum(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Hardware/OS recommendations for large databases (
Date: 2005-11-15 14:55:45
Message-ID: 20051115145545.GQ9905@mathom.us
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On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 09:33:25AM -0500, Luke Lonergan wrote:
>write performance is now up to par with the best cards I believe. We
>find that you still need to set Linux readahead to at least 8MB
>(blockdev --setra) to get maximum read performance on them, is that your

What on earth does that do to your seek performance?

Mike Stone

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