Re: [PERFORM] WAL Optimisation - configuration and usage

2004-02-29 Thread Rob Fielding
Rod Taylor wrote: random_page_cost = 0.5 Try a value of 2 for a while. OK thanks Richard and Rod. I've upped this to 2. I think I left this over from a previous play with setttings on my IDE RAID 0 workstation. It seemed to have a good effect being set as a low float so it stuck. I've

Re: [PERFORM] FreeBSD config

2004-02-29 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Shridhar Daithankar wrote: Dror Matalon wrote: I've read Matt Dillon's discussion about the freebsd VM at http://www.daemonnews.org/21/freebsd_vm.html and I didn't see him saying that Freebsd uses all the free RAM for disk cache. Would you care to provide a URL pointing to that? Quoting

Re: [PERFORM] FreeBSD config

2004-02-29 Thread Dror Matalon
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 08:30:58PM +1300, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > > > Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > > >Dror Matalon wrote: > > > >>I've read Matt Dillon's discussion about the freebsd VM at > >>http://www.daemonnews.org/21/freebsd_vm.html and I didn't see him > >>saying that Freebsd uses all t