2007/8/22, Kenneth Marshall <ktm(at)rice(dot)edu>:
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>
> You are working at the correct level. The bgwriter performs the I/O
> smoothing
> function at the database level. Obviously, the OS level smoothing function
> needed to be tuned and you have done that within the parameters of the OS.
> You may want to bring this up on the Linux kernel lists and see if they
> have
> any ideas.
Will do so, this seems to be a reasonable idea.
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Regards,
Dmitry