Re: Harddisk performance degrading over time?

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Daniel Åkerud <zilch(at)home(dot)se>
Cc: Jason Earl <jdearl(at)yahoo(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Harddisk performance degrading over time?
Date: 2001-06-24 20:57:25
Message-ID: 200106242057.f5OKvPU28352@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Oh yeah,
> vacuuming is not the problem here.
>
> Thanks anyway... :)
>
> And also, it seems that it is the indexed searches that is suffering the
> most. The non-indexed searches is less affected. This is not only PostgreSQL
> but also MySQL.

I know the BSD filesystems are self-defragmenting. I don't know if the
ext2 filesystems are the same. Surely someone must know.

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