Re: Inserting 8MB bytea: just 25% of disk perf used?

From: Pierre Frédéric Caillaud <lists(at)peufeu(dot)com>
To: "fkater(at)googlemail(dot)com" <fkater(at)googlemail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Inserting 8MB bytea: just 25% of disk perf used?
Date: 2010-01-14 23:19:56
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On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:28:07 +0100, fkater(at)googlemail(dot)com
<fkater(at)googlemail(dot)com> wrote:

> Pierre Frédéric Caillaud:
>
>> > 4 Core CPU 3 Ghz, WinXP, 1 TB SATA disk.
>>
>> Big CPU and slow disk...
>>
>> You should add another disk just for the WAL -- disks are pretty cheap
>> these days.
>> Writing the WAL on a second disk is the first thing to do on a
>> configuration like yours, if you are limited by writes.
>> It also reduces the fsync lag a lot since the disk is only doing WAL.
>
> Good idea -- where can I set the path to WAL?

At install, or use a symlink (they exist on windows too !...)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1901405/postgresql-wal-on-windows

I've no idea of the other needed NTFS tweaks, like if there is a
noatime/nodiratime ?...

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