Re: can't handle large number of INSERT/UPDATEs

Turbo linux 7 sems to be agreeing with Curtis,

bi: ブロックデバイスに送られたブロック (blocks/s)。
bo: ブロックデバイスから受け取ったブロック (blocks/s)。

Sorry it's in Japanese but bi says "blocks sent to block device" and bo is 
"blocks received from block device".

I don't know that much about it but the actual output seems to suggest that 
the man page is wrong. I find it just the slightest bit amusing that such 
errors in the docs should be translated faithfully when translating 
invariably introduces errors of it's own ;)

Regards
Iain


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Lane" 
To: "Curtis Zinzilieta" 
Cc: "Anjan Dave" ; "Matt Clark" ; "Rod 
Taylor" ; "Postgresql Performance" 

Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] can't handle large number of INSERT/UPDATEs


> Curtis Zinzilieta  writes:
>> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Er ... it *is* the other way around.  bi is blocks in (to the CPU),
>>> bo is blocks out (from the CPU).
>
>> Ummm.....
>> [curtisz@labsoft T2]$ man vmstat
>>        bi: Blocks sent to a block device (blocks/s).
>>        bo: Blocks received from a block device (blocks/s).
>
> You might want to have a word with your OS vendor.  My vmstat
> man page says
>
>   IO
>       bi: Blocks received from a block device (blocks/s).
>       bo: Blocks sent to a block device (blocks/s).
>
> and certainly anyone who's been around a computer more than a week or
> two knows which direction "in" and "out" are customarily seen from.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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