> Given this scenario my questions are the following: > > 1) Does it makes sense to activate forced writes on Linux ?
Different versions of Linux file systems provide better protection than others. Personally, I believe that forced write = ON is necessary for all OS -- but I suspect that I am in the minority (some will swear they have never had a problem/db corruption, but I am too chicken to take the risk -- I like sleeping at night). > 2) Is increasing the page size the right approach to improve performance ? > Which are the drawbacks of setting page size to 16K ? There is no universally true answer, it depends. > 3) The same question stands for cache pages: is it useful ( or has > disadvantages ) to have so many cache pages as there are on disk pages ( > provided there is enough RAM size ) ? As long as you have the RAM there is no problem. Sean
