Re: Two Necessary Kernel Tweaks for Linux Systems

From: Andrea Suisani <sickpig(at)opinioni(dot)net>
To: sthomas(at)optionshouse(dot)com
Cc: "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Two Necessary Kernel Tweaks for Linux Systems
Date: 2013-01-08 08:29:59
Message-ID: 50EBD907.2060309@opinioni.net
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On 01/02/2013 10:46 PM, Shaun Thomas wrote:
> Hey everyone!
>
> After much testing and hair-pulling, we've confirmed two kernel settings that
> should always be modified in production Linux systems. Especially new ones with
> the completely fair scheduler (CFS) as opposed to the O(1) scheduler.

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> I just figured I'd share, since we found this info so beneficial.

I just want to confirm that on our relatively small
test server that tweaks give us a 25% performance boost!

Really appreciated Shaun.

thanks
Andrea

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