Re: AIX slow buffer reads

From: Brad Nicholson <bnichols(at)ca(dot)afilias(dot)info>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, André Volpato <andre(dot)volpato(at)ecomtecnologia(dot)com(dot)br>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: AIX slow buffer reads
Date: 2010-10-27 22:37:23
Message-ID: 4CC8A9A3.7060901@ca.afilias.info
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On 10/27/2010 4:10 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Greg Smith<greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> André Volpato wrote:
>>> I disabled effective_io_concurrency at AIX but it made no changes on bitmap index times.
>> Brad's point is that it probably doesn't do anything at all on AIX, and
>> is already disabled accordingly.
> AFAICT from googling, AIX does have posix_fadvise, though maybe it
> doesn't do anything useful ...
>
> regards, tom lane

If there is an easy way to check if it does do anything useful? If so,
I can check it out.

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