On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 09:04:07 -0400 "mlw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am going to compare a 16KB PostgreSQL system to an 8KB system. I am working > on the assumption that 16K takes about as long to read as 8K, and That the CPU > overhead of working with a 16K block is not too significant. > > I know with toast, block size is no longer an issue, but 8K is not a lot these > days, and it seems like a lot of syscall and block management overhead could be > reduced by doubling it. Any comments?
It's something I was planning to investigate, FWIW. I'd be interested to see the results... > The test system is a dual 850MHZ PIII, 1G memory, RedHat 7.2, 2 IBM SCSI 18G > hard disks, intel motherboard with onboard adaptec SCSI ULVD. > > Besides pgbench, anyone have any tests that they would like to try? Perhaps OSDB? http://osdb.sf.net Cheers, Neil -- Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Key ID: DB3C29FC ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
