Just eyeing the code ... another thing we changed since 8.3 is to enable posix_fadvise() calls for WAL. Any of the complaints want to try diking out this bit of code (near line 2580 in src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c)?
#if defined(USE_POSIX_FADVISE) && defined(POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED) if (!XLogArchivingActive() && (get_sync_bit(sync_method) & PG_O_DIRECT) == 0) (void) posix_fadvise(openLogFile, 0, 0, POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED); #endif regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers