Re: File Fragmentation

From: Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: File Fragmentation
Date: 2013-03-20 14:35:06
Message-ID: kichcp$qcn$1@ger.gmane.org
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jg, 20.03.2013 12:13:
> I suspect the heavy fragmented files to the cause of the IO wait
> grows (PostgreSQL on WIndows).
>
>How to cope with that?

I would first investigate that it's *really* the fragmentation.
As a database does a lot of random IO, fragmentation isn't such a big issue.

You could use e.g. contig[1] from SysInternals to de-fragment the data files and then check if that really improves performance.

Thomas

[1] http://technet.microsoft.com/de-de/sysinternals/bb897428

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