| From: | Jeff Trout <threshar(at)torgo(dot)978(dot)org> |
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| To: | Vivek Khera <vivek(at)khera(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Pgsql performance <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Slow restoration question |
| Date: | 2006-05-03 14:46:51 |
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On May 3, 2006, at 10:16 AM, Vivek Khera wrote:
>
> On May 3, 2006, at 9:19 AM, Jeff Trout wrote:
>
>> Bonnie++ is able to use very large datasets. It also tries to
>> figure out hte size you want (2x ram) - the original bonnie is
>> limited to 2GB.
>
> but you have to be careful building bonnie++ since it has bad
> assumptions about which systems can do large files... eg, on
> FreeBSD it doesn't try large files unless you patch it
> appropriately (which the freebsd port does for you).
>
On platforms it thinks can't use large files it uses multiple sets of
2GB files. (Sort of like our beloved PG)
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Jeff Trout <jeff(at)jefftrout(dot)com>
http://www.jefftrout.com/
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