On Fri, Sep 27, 2024 at 8:07 AM Greg Sabino Mullane <htamf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> tl;dr let's assume SSDs are popular and HDDs are the exception and flip > our default > <snip> > Granted, there are other factors involved, and yes, perhaps we should > tweak some of the similar settings as well, but ranom_page_cost is the one > setting most out of sync with today's hardware realities. So I'll be brave > and throw a number out there: 1.2. And change our docs to say wordage like > "if you are using an older hard disk drive technology, you may want to try > raising rpc" to replace our fairly-hidden note about SSDs buried in the > last sentence - of the fourth paragraph - of the rpc docs. > +1 I suggest a slightly nicer comment in the default conf file, like "For spinning hard drives, raise this to at least 3 and test" Roberto
