Re: BBU Cache vs. spindles

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BBU Cache vs. spindles
Date: 2010-10-23 21:03:06
Message-ID: 4CC34D8A.4050606@agliodbs.com
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> Even if it's possible, it's far from clear to me that it would be an
> improvement. The author estimates (apparently somewhat loosely)
> that it's a 5% to 10% performance hit in InnoDB; I'm far from
> certain that full_page_writes cost us that much. Does anyone have
> benchmark numbers handy?

It most certainly can, depending on your CPU saturation and I/O support.
I've seen a 10% improvement in througput time from turning off
full_page_writes on some machines, such as when we were doing the
SpecJAppserver benchmarks on Solaris.

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