Re: Advice configuring ServeRAID 8k for performance

From: Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Kenneth Cox <kenstir(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Advice configuring ServeRAID 8k for performance
Date: 2010-08-13 18:41:29
Message-ID: 4C6591D9.1080206@2ndquadrant.com
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> We recomment 'data=writeback' for ext3 in our docs
>

Only for the WAL though, which is fine, and I think spelled out clearly
enough in the doc section you quoted. Ken's system has one big RAID
volume, which means he'd be mounting the data files with 'writeback'
too; that's the thing to avoid.

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Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD
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greg(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com www.2ndQuadrant.us

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