Re: PG on NFS may be just a bad idea

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Mija Lee <mija(at)scharp(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PG on NFS may be just a bad idea
Date: 2007-10-08 20:46:26
Message-ID: 200710082046.l98KkQj28574@momjian.us
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > > http://blogs.netapp.com/dave/2007/08/oracle-optimize.html
> >
> > Not a whole lot of technical content there, but pretty interesting
> > nonetheless. I *think* that the issues we're seeing are largely in the
> > NFS client-side kernel code, so bypassing that stack as Oracle is doing
> > might eliminate the problem. Of course, there's a sizable amount of
> > code to be written to do that ...
>
> Yeah. Next step we will be writing our own malloc.

I assume there should be a ;-) in there because we already have our own
malloc (palloc).

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