Re: advice on raid controller

From: Palle Girgensohn <girgen(at)pingpong(dot)net>
To: Matt Clark <matt(at)ymogen(dot)net>, rj(at)last(dot)fm, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: advice on raid controller
Date: 2003-09-29 21:31:54
Message-ID: 39060000.1064871114@palle.girgensohn.se
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Stupid question, perhaps, but would a battery-backed cache make it safe to
set fsync=false in postgresql.conf?

/Palle

--On söndag, september 28, 2003 13.07.57 +0100 Matt Clark <matt(at)ymogen(dot)net>
wrote:

> As others have mentioned, you really ought to get battery-backed cache if
> you're doing any volume of writes. The ability to do safe write-back
> caching makes an *insane* difference to write performance.

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