Re: Asynchronous commit | Transaction loss at server crash

What if we don't rely on the cache of SSD, i.e. have write-through setting and not write-back. Is the performance gain then not significant to justify SSD ?

> Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 13:35:54 -0600
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Asynchronous commit | Transaction loss at server crash
> From: scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com
> To: b_ki(at)hotmail(dot)com
> CC: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
>
> SSD and battery backed cache kind of do the same thing, in that they
> reduce random access times close to 0. However, most SSDs are still
> not considered reliable due to their internal caching systems. hard
> drives and bbu RAID are proven solutions, SSD is still not really
> there just yet in terms of being proven reliable.
>
> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Balkrishna Sharma <b_ki(at)hotmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > Good suggestion. Thanks.
> > What's your take on SSD ? I read somewhere that moving the WAL to SSD helps
> > as well.
> >
> >> Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 11:36:31 -0600
> >> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Asynchronous commit | Transaction loss at server
> >> crash
> >> From: scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com
> >> To: b_ki(at)hotmail(dot)com
> >> CC: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
> >>
> >> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Balkrishna Sharma <b_ki(at)hotmail(dot)com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > I need to support several hundreds of concurrent update/inserts from an
> >> > online form with pretty low latency (maybe couple of milliseconds at
> >> > max).
> >> > Think of a save to database at every 'tab-out' in an online form.
> >>
> >> You can get nearly the same performance by using a RAID controller
> >> with battery backed cache without the same danger of losing
> >> transactions.
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