Re: WAL: O_DIRECT and multipage-writer

From: Mark Wong <markw(at)osdl(dot)org>
To: ITAGAKI Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: WAL: O_DIRECT and multipage-writer
Date: 2005-03-22 22:30:13
Message-ID: 20050322223013.GC12885@osdl.org
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-hackers pgsql-patches

On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 06:06:23PM +0900, ITAGAKI Takahiro wrote:
> Environment:
> OS : Linux kernel 2.6.9
> CPU : Pentium 4 3GHz
> disk : ATA 5400rpm (Data and WAL are placed on same partition.)
> memory : 1GB
> config : shared_buffers=10000, wal_buffers=256,
> XLOG_SEG_SIZE=256MB, checkpoint_segment=4

Hi Itagaki,

In light of this thread, have you compared the performance on
Linux-2.4?

Direct io on block device has performance regression on 2.6.x kernel
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0503.1/0328.html

Mark

In response to

Responses

Browse pgsql-hackers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Oleg Bartunov 2005-03-22 22:33:04 Re: odd problem !
Previous Message Tom Lane 2005-03-22 22:27:00 Re: odd problem !

Browse pgsql-patches by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message ITAGAKI Takahiro 2005-03-23 04:55:46 Re: WAL: O_DIRECT and multipage-writer
Previous Message Tom Lane 2005-03-22 20:18:22 Re: improves ExecMakeFunctionResultNoSets