On Aug 19, 2005, at 12:55 AM, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 10:46 -0700, Roger Hand wrote: Have you considered booting your machine with elevator=deadline?
Although I'm not the OP for this problem, I thought I'd try it out. WOW.. this should be in a Pg tuning guide somewhere. I added this to my server tonight just for kicks and saw a pronounced improvement in IO performance. Thank you very much for mentioning this on the list.
I didn't have a long enough maintenance window to do solid benchmarking, but I can say for certain that the change was noticeable, especially in VACUUM operations.
Specs for the server: PG 8.0.1 Linux 2.6.12-3 kernel 4xOpteron 2.2 12GB RAM 16-drive RAID 10 XFS mounted with noatime pg_xlog on separate RAID controller -Dan ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly