Re: Huge Data sets, simple queries

From: Mike Rylander <mrylander(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Luke Lonergan <llonergan(at)greenplum(dot)com>
Cc: PFC <lists(at)peufeu(dot)com>, "Jeffrey W(dot) Baker" <jwbaker(at)acm(dot)org>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Huge Data sets, simple queries
Date: 2006-02-01 17:57:47
Message-ID: b918cf3d0602010957n7d0ba9cetb290a0cda1b951d0@mail.gmail.com
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On 2/1/06, Luke Lonergan <llonergan(at)greenplum(dot)com> wrote:
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> This is actually interesting overall - I think what this might be showing is
> that the Linux SW RAID1 is alternating I/Os to the mirror disks from
> different processes (LWP or HWP both maybe?), but not within one process.

I can confirm this behavior after looking at my multipathed fibre
channel SAN. To the best of my knowledge, the multipathing code uses
the same underlying I/O code as the Linux SW RAID logic.

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Mike Rylander
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GPLS -- PINES Development
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