Re: [Bizgres-general] Introducing a new linux

From: Michael Stone <mstone+postgres(at)mathom(dot)us>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [Bizgres-general] Introducing a new linux
Date: 2006-04-26 23:53:54
Message-ID: 20060426235352.GD31328@mathom.us
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On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 04:33:40PM -0700, Luke Lonergan wrote:
>I¹m thinking about it, we¹re already using a fixed read-ahead of 16MB using
>blockdev on the stock Redhat 2.6.9 kernel, it would be nice to not have to
>set this so we may try it.

FWIW, I never saw much performance difference from doing that. Wu's
patch, OTOH, gave a big boost.

Mike Stone

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