Re: MusicBrainz postgres performance issues

From: Ilya Kosmodemiansky <ilya(dot)kosmodemiansky(at)postgresql-consulting(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Kaye <rob(at)musicbrainz(dot)org>, Josh Krupka <jkrupka(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Performance <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: MusicBrainz postgres performance issues
Date: 2015-03-15 17:54:51
Message-ID: CAG95seV8cGYuE-EpW4g8UdSEWFUXBe3eUXcf8QMUgNc1GB1uoQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 8:46 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> That imo doesn't really have anything to do with it. The primary benefit
> of a BBU with writeback caching is accelerating (near-)synchronous
> writes. Like the WAL.

My point was, that having no proper raid controller (today bbu surely
needed for the controller to be a proper one) + heavy writes of any
kind, it is absolutely impossible to live with large shared_buffers
and without io problems.

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>
> Andres Freund
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