Re: [HACKERS] Hint bits vs. OS readahead

2008-12-08 Thread Decibel!
On Dec 5, 2008, at 7:50 PM, Andrew Gierth wrote: While waiting for a large restore to complete (and investigating why parts of it were so slow), I came across this scenario. This isn't quite the same as some previous discussion of hint bits, but I thought it was something that could probably be

[HACKERS] Hint bits vs. OS readahead

2008-12-05 Thread Andrew Gierth
While waiting for a large restore to complete (and investigating why parts of it were so slow), I came across this scenario. This isn't quite the same as some previous discussion of hint bits, but I thought it was something that could probably be taken into account in future. This also may be