From: | Matthias Meixner <meixner(at)dvs1(dot)informatik(dot)tu-darmstadt(dot)de> |
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To: | Mario Weilguni <mweilguni(at)sime(dot)com> |
Cc: | Manfred Koizar <mkoi-pg(at)aon(dot)at>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Write ahead logging |
Date: | 2003-02-21 08:52:48 |
Message-ID: | 3E55E8E0.60201@dvs1.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de |
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Mario Weilguni wrote:
>>>So the question is: has anybody verified, that the log is written to disk
>>>before returning from commit?
>>
>>Some (or all?) IDE disks are known to lie: they report success as
>>soon as the data have reached the drive's RAM.
>
>
> under linux, hdparm -W can turn off the write cache of IDE disk, maybe you
> should try with write-caching turned off.
Yes, that made a big difference. Latency went up to 25-95ms.
Regards,
Matthias Meixner
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