| From: | Rory Campbell-Lange <rory(at)campbell-lange(dot)net> |
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| To: | Alex Turner <armtuk(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: LVM and Postgres |
| Date: | 2005-12-08 11:28:41 |
| Message-ID: | 20051208112841.GA17840@campbell-lange.net |
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On 06/12/05, Michael Stone (mstone+postgres(at)mathom(dot)us) wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 07:52:25PM -0500, Alex Turner wrote:
> >I would argue that almost certainly won't by doing that as you will
> >create a new place even further away for the disk head to seek to
> >instead of just another file on the same FS that is probably closer to
> >the current head position.
>
> I would argue that you should benchmark it instead of speculating.
Is there a good way of benchmarking? We don't have much in the way of
test data at present.
Regards,
Rory
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