>>>>> "PJ" == Pailloncy Jean-Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PJ> Hi, PJ> A small test with 8rc2 and BLCKSZ of 8k and 32k. PJ> It seems there is a 10% increase in the number of transactions by PJ> second. PJ> Does someone plan to carefully test the impact of BLCKSZ ? One of the suggestions handed to me a long time ago for speeding up PG on FreeBSD was to double the default blocksize in PG. I tried it, but found not a significant enough speed up to make it worth the trouble to remember to patch every version of Pg during the upgrade path (ie, 7.4.0 -> 7.4.2 etc.) Forgetting to do that would be disastrous! -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-301-869-4449 x806 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