| From: | DeJuan Jackson <djackson(at)speedfc(dot)com> |
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| To: | Jonathan Bartlett <johnnyb(at)eskimo(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: ext3 block size |
| Date: | 2003-08-07 16:36:28 |
| Message-ID: | 3F32800C.2040101@speedfc.com |
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It was RH8 where I saw the issues. It was so bad that I had one server
freeze 20 minutes after reboot. And it wasn't a hardware issue; that
server is now running with several months of uptime under heavy load.
Jonathan Bartlett wrote:
>What distribution are you running? I and a lot of other people use RH8 on
>multiprocesor boxes, and it works great!
>
>Jon
>
>On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, DeJuan Jackson wrote:
>
>
>
>>Don't know the answer to your question, but I thought I would just pipe
>>in and say that if this is an SMP (has multiple processors) Linux box
>>you don't want to use ext3!!!
>>
>>I used ext3 on my SMP box here at work and now I can't have children (I
>>guess it would help if I got a wife first)!!
>>But in all seriousness SMP + ext3 = BAD(unpredictable crashes depending
>>loosely related to system load).
>>
>>
>>Wilson A. Galafassi Jr. wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>hello.
>>>my database size is 5GB. what is the block size recommend?
>>>thanks
>>>wilson
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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