>>>>> "SC" == Sean Chittenden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I need to step in and do 2 things: SC> Thanks for posting that. Let me know if you have any questions while SC> doing your testing. I've found that using 16K blocks on FreeBSD SC> results in about an 8% speedup in writes to the database, fwiw. Just double checking: if I do this, then I need to halve the parameters in postgresql.conf that involve buffers, specifically, max_fsm_pages and shared_buffers. I think max_fsm_pages should be adjusted since the number of pages in the system overall has been halved. Anything else that should be re-tuned for this? My tests are still running so I don't have numbers yet. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rockville, MD +1-240-453-8497 AIM: vivekkhera Y!: vivek_khera http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html