Re: WAL Optimisation - configuration and usage

From: Rod Taylor <pg(at)rbt(dot)ca>
To: Rob Fielding <rob(at)dsvr(dot)net>
Cc: Postgresql Performance <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: WAL Optimisation - configuration and usage
Date: 2004-02-29 00:52:52
Message-ID: 1078015971.24316.9.camel@jester
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> random_page_cost = 0.5

Not likely. The lowest this value should ever be is 1, and thats if
you're using something like a ram drive.

If you're drives are doing a ton of extra random IO due to the above
(rather than sequential reads) it would lower the throughput quite a
bit.

Try a value of 2 for a while.

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