Re: How to improve db performance with $7K?

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>
To: "Mohan, Ross" <RMohan(at)arbinet(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: How to improve db performance with $7K?
Date: 2005-04-20 00:12:24
Message-ID: 20050420001224.GT58835@decibel.org
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On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 06:41:37PM -0000, Mohan, Ross wrote:
> Don't you think "optimal stripe width" would be
> a good question to research the binaries for? I'd
> think that drives the answer, largely. (uh oh, pun alert)
>
> EG, oracle issues IO requests (this may have changed _just_
> recently) in 64KB chunks, regardless of what you ask for.
> So when I did my striping (many moons ago, when the Earth
> was young...) I did it in 128KB widths, and set the oracle
> "multiblock read count" according. For oracle, any stripe size
> under 64KB=stupid, anything much over 128K/258K=wasteful.
>
> I am eager to find out how PG handles all this.

AFAIK PostgreSQL requests data one database page at a time (normally
8k). Of course the OS might do something different.
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