I fully agree with Gaetano about testing sync methods. From testing I've done
on two different Solaris 8 boxes, the O_DSYNC option on Solaris 8 beats fsync
and fdatasync easily. Test it yourself though. There's probably some
opportuntiy there for better performance for you.
> > BTW this is Postgres 7.4.1, and our customers are Solaris 8 and 9.
>
> If you care your data upgrade to more recent 7.4.5
>
> Test your better sync method using /src/tools/fsync however do some
> experiment changing the sync method, you can also avoid to update the
> acces time for the inodes mounting the partition with noatime option
> ( this however have more impact on performance for read activities )
>
>
> Regards
> Gaetano Mendola
>
>
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