Re: How to make a REALLY FAST db server?

On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 03:35:09PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Usually when this question is asked, the response is "well,
> > I've run a lot of servers, and they just seem faster." But I'm
> > only interested in hard data.
>
> Well, SCSI with tagged queueing allows you to send multiple disk
> requests to the drive and the drive orders them to be optimal.  Only the
> drive knows there the head it at a given moment so it seems good to push
> such optimizations into the disk drive.

From what I gather from reading lkml, recent ATA standards do include such
capabilities. Whether it is supports by the drivers, controllers and disks
is another matter entirely. But it is there.

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