Re: Allow a per-tablespace effective_io_concurrency setting

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Allow a per-tablespace effective_io_concurrency setting
Date: 2015-09-02 21:31:35
Message-ID: 55E76AB7.4030306@agliodbs.com
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On 09/02/2015 02:25 PM, Tomas Vondra wrote:
>
> As I explained, spindles have very little to do with it - you need
> multiple I/O requests per device, to get the benefit. Sure, the DBAs
> should know how many spindles they have and should be able to determine
> optimal IO depth. But we actually say this in the docs:

My experience with performance tuning is that values above 3 have no
real effect on how queries are executed.

--
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com

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