On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 05:11:15PM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 06:58:47PM -0600, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 06:42:02AM -0800, Arne Woerner wrote: > > > Did you do those "dd" tests with small block sizes (like 1byte: > > > bs=1), like somebody on one of those lists suggests, too? Then we > > > could see, if there is a high latency that ruins everything... > > > > FYI, PostgreSQL does 8kB I/O by default. This can only be changed by > > modifying a header file. > > That's definitely small in my book (certainly compared to the 1MB block > size the first responder suggested), knowing that, you should > definitely do dd tests with 8k blocks since that's the best performance you > are likely to get.
Agreed, it is small from a OS/filesystem viewpoint, but it's also nowhere near 1 byte which is the test that had been suggested. :) -- Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect [EMAIL PROTECTED] Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" _______________________________________________ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"