Re: Weird XFS WAL problem

From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
To: "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Greg Smith" <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "Craig James" <craig_james(at)emolecules(dot)com>, "Matthew Wakeling" <matthew(at)flymine(dot)org>, <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Weird XFS WAL problem
Date: 2010-06-03 19:17:28
Message-ID: 4C07B9780200002500031EBB@gw.wicourts.gov
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Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> I think it's a case of the quickest, simplest answer to semi-new
> tech. Not sure what to do with barriers? Just flush the whole
> cache.
>
> I'm guessing that this will get optimized in the future.

Let's hope so.

That reminds me, the write barrier concept is at least on the
horizon as a viable technology; does anyone know if the asynchronous
graphs concept in this (one page) paper ever came to anything? (I
haven't hear anything about it lately.)

http://www.usenix.org/events/fast05/wips/burnett.pdf

-Kevin

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