| From: | Greg Mennie <gjm(at)caledoncard(dot)com> |
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| To: | Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: hanging for 30sec when checkpointing |
| Date: | 2004-02-16 13:29:03 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.44.0402160816060.2036-100000@fargo.caledoncard.com |
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On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Steve Crawford wrote:
> I spoke with some 3Ware reps at a trade show and they recommended
> adding the following to /etc/sysctl.conf:
> vm.max-readahead = 256
> vm.min-readahead = 128
>
> These settings take effect at boot. To change on a running system:
> echo 256 > /proc/sys/vm/max-readahead
> echo 128 > /proc/sys/vm/min-readahead
>
> This advice was specific to the 3Ware card on Linux.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>
Thanks for the information, Steve.
It didn't cure the write storm, but I'm sure I gained some read performance.
Every little bit helps...
- Greg
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