"Albe Laurenz" <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at> writes:
> This refers to the performance problem reported in
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2008-04/msg00052.php
>
> After some time of trial and error we found that changing the I/O scheduling
> algorithm to "deadline" improved I/O performance by a factor 4 (!) for
> this specific load test.
What was the algorithm before?
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