Re: ext3 block size

From: Jonathan Bartlett <johnnyb(at)eskimo(dot)com>
To: DeJuan Jackson <djackson(at)speedfc(dot)com>
Cc: "Wilson A(dot) Galafassi Jr(dot)" <juniorlist(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)br>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ext3 block size
Date: 2003-08-07 14:21:22
Message-ID: Pine.GSU.4.44.0308070720520.16225-100000@eskimo.com
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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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