Re: [SPAM?] Re: Asynchronous I/O Support

From: mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc
To: Zeugswetter Andreas ADI SD <ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at>
Cc: NikhilS <nikkhils(at)gmail(dot)com>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Mark Kirkwood <markir(at)paradise(dot)net(dot)nz>, Luke Lonergan <llonergan(at)greenplum(dot)com>, Raja Agrawal <raja(dot)agrawal(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [SPAM?] Re: Asynchronous I/O Support
Date: 2006-10-20 17:11:16
Message-ID: 20061020171116.GA15271@mark.mielke.cc
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On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 05:37:48PM +0200, Zeugswetter Andreas ADI SD wrote:
> Yup, that would be the scenario where it helps (provided that you have
> a smart disk or a disk array and an intelligent OS aio implementation).
> It would be used to fetch the data pages pointed at from an index leaf,
> or the next level index pages.
> We measured the IO bandwidth difference on Windows with EMC as beeing
> nearly proportional to parallel outstanding requests up to at least

Measured it using what? I was under the impression only one
proof-of-implementation existed, and that the scenarios and
configuration of the person who wrote it, did not show significant
improvement.

You have PostgreSQL on Windows with EMC with async I/O support to
test with?

Cheers,
mark

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