Re: [PERFORM] A Better External Sort?

From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
To: <rjpeace(at)earthlink(dot)net>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>, <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] A Better External Sort?
Date: 2005-09-27 15:21:37
Message-ID: s3391d3d.067@gwmta.wicourts.gov
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I can't help wondering how a couple thousand context switches per
second would affect the attempt to load disk info into the L1 and
L2 caches. That's pretty much the low end of what I see when the
server is under any significant load.

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