Re: PostgreSQL is extremely slow on Windows

From: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
To: Magnus Hagander <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
Cc: "Vig, Sandor (G/FI-2)" <Sandor(dot)Vig(at)audi(dot)hu>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL is extremely slow on Windows
Date: 2005-02-23 04:58:51
Message-ID: 421C0D8B.3090506@samurai.com
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Magnus Hagander wrote:
> You can *never* get above 80 without using write cache, regardless of
> your OS, if you have a single disk.

Why? Even with, say, a 15K RPM disk? Or the ability to fsync() multiple
concurrently-committing transactions at once?

-Neil

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