Re: Insert performance, what should I expect? - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Steinar H. Gunderson
Subject Re: Insert performance, what should I expect?
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Msg-id 20041023111530.GA24976@uio.no
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In response to Re: Insert performance, what should I expect?  (Gaetano Mendola <mendola@bigfoot.com>)
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On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 12:31:32PM +0200, Gaetano Mendola wrote:
>> Any comments/suggestions would be appreciated.
> Tune also the disk I/O elevator.
>
> look at this: http://www.varlena.com/varlena/GeneralBits/49.php

Mm, interesting. I've heard somewhere that the best for database-like loads
on Linux is to disable the anticipatory I/O scheduler
(http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/567), which should probably
influence the numbers for elvtune also -- anybody know whether this is true
or not for PostgreSQL?

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