Re: [PATCHES] O_DIRECT for WAL writes

From: Mark Wong <markw(at)osdl(dot)org>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, ITAGAKI Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] O_DIRECT for WAL writes
Date: 2005-07-07 04:58:31
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On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 09:21:56 -0700
Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:

> Jim,
>
> > Josh, is this something that could be done in the performance lab?
>
> That's the idea. Sadly, OSDL's hardware has been having critical failures of
> late (I'm still trying to get test results on the checkpointing thing) and
> the GreenPlum machines aren't up yet.

I'm on the verge of having a 4-way opteron system with 4 Adaptec 2200s
scsi controllers attached to eight 10-disk 36GB arrays ready. I believe
there are software tools that'll let you reconfigure the luns from linux
so you wouldn't need physical access. Anyone want time on the system?

Mark

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