Re: Postgres fsync off (not needed) with NetApp

From: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
To: Dan Gorman <dgorman(at)hi5(dot)com>
Cc: "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Mark Lewis <mark(dot)lewis(at)mir3(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Postgres fsync off (not needed) with NetApp
Date: 2006-06-15 05:51:34
Message-ID: 4490F566.5090706@joeconway.com
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Dan Gorman wrote:
> That makes sense. Speaking of NetApp, we're using the 3050C with 4 FC
> shelfs. Any generic advice other than the NetApp (their NFS oracle
> tuning options)
> that might be useful? (e.g. turning off snapshots)

I'm not sure if this is in the tuning advice you already have, but we
use a dedicated gigabit interface to the NetApp, with jumbo (9K) frames,
and an 8K NFS blocksize. We use this for both Oracle and Postgres when
the database resides on NetApp.

Joe

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