| From: | Florian Weimer <fweimer(at)bfk(dot)de> |
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| To: | Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au> |
| Cc: | Luke Lonergan <LLonergan(at)greenplum(dot)com>, "david(at)lang(dot)hm" <david(at)lang(dot)hm>, "glynastill(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk" <glynastill(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk>, "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: SSD performance |
| Date: | 2009-01-23 14:30:26 |
| Message-ID: | 82fxja2iyl.fsf@mid.bfk.de |
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* Craig Ringer:
> I'd be much more confident with something like those devices than I
> would with an OS ramdisk plus startup/shutdown scripts to initialize it
> from a file and write it out to a file. Wouldn't it be a pain if the UPS
> didn't give the OS enough warning to write the RAM disk out before
> losing power...
The cache warm-up time can also be quite annoying. Of course, with
flash-backed DRAM, this is a concern as long as you use the cheaper,
slower variants for the backing storage.
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