On Tuesday 25 October 2011 at 11:12 marius adrian popa wrote:
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> In other words: if you use Ext3 and you note performance regressions
> with this release, try disabling barriers ("barriers=0" mount option).
I can understand doing this for routine desktop work. It does make a
difference. But for a database server? The problem is that the old behaviour
was the wrong behaviour. Letting the hard drive re-order page writes
completely negates the efforts firebird makes to ensure pages are written in
the correct order.
Paul
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