Re: strange performance regression between 7.4 and 8.1

From: "Alex Deucher" <alexdeucher(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Guido Neitzer" <lists(at)event-s(dot)net>
Cc: "PostgreSQL Performance" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: strange performance regression between 7.4 and 8.1
Date: 2007-03-06 02:56:24
Message-ID: a728f9f90703051856s2562f4a4g2fd0ba59f3b97609@mail.gmail.com
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On 3/5/07, Guido Neitzer <lists(at)event-s(dot)net> wrote:
> On 01.03.2007, at 13:40, Alex Deucher wrote:
>
> > I read several places that the SAN might be to blame, but
> > testing with bonnie and dd indicates that the SAN is actually almost
> > twice as fast as the scsi discs in the old sun server. I've tried
> > adjusting just about every option in the postgres config file, but
> > performance remains the same. Any ideas?
>
> As mentioned last week:
>
> Did you actually try to use the local drives for speed testing? It
> might be that the SAN introduces latency especially for random access
> you don't see on local drives.

Yes, I started setting that up this afternoon. I'm going to test that
tomorrow and post the results.

Alex

>
> cug
>

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