Re: PostgreSQL and Linux 2.6 kernel.

From: Cott Lang <cott(at)internetstaff(dot)com>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL and Linux 2.6 kernel.
Date: 2004-04-04 13:04:35
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On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 01:56, Gary Doades wrote:
> Unfortunately I don't understand the question!
>
> My background is the primarily Win32. The last time I used a *nix OS
> was about 20 years ago apart from occasional dips into the linux OS
> over the past few years. If you can tell be how to find out what you want
> I will gladly give you the information.

There are two available io schedulers in 2.6 (new feature), deadline and
anticipatory. It should show be listed in the boot messages:

dmesg | grep scheduler

I've seen people arguing for each of the two schedulers, saying one is
better than the other for databases. I'm curious which one you're
using. :)

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