| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Nikolas Everett <nik9000(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org, Michael Clemmons <glassresistor(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: 8.4.1 ubuntu karmic slow createdb |
| Date: | 2009-12-11 17:58:39 |
| Message-ID: | 1260554319.2611.10.camel@jd-desktop.unknown.charter.com |
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On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 20:38 -0500, Nikolas Everett wrote:
> In my limited experience ext4 as presented by Karmic is not db
> friendly. I had to carve my swap partition into a swap partition and
> an xfs partition to get better db performance. Try fsync=off first,
> but if that doesn't work then try a mini xfs.
Do not turn fsync off. That is bad advice. I would not suggest ext4 at
this point for database operations. Use ext3. It is backward compatible.
Joshua D. Drake
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