On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 04:19:12PM +0100, Csaba Nagy wrote:
> What I can add from our experience: ext3 turned out lousy for our
> application, and converting to XFS made a quite big improvement for our
> DB load. I don't have hard figures, but I think it was some 30%
> improvement in overall speed, and it had a huge improvement for heavy
> load times... what I mean is that with ext3 we had multiple parallel big
> tasks executing in more time than if we would have executed them
> sequentially, and with XFS that was gone, load scales linearly. In any
> case you should test the performance of your application on different FS
> and different settings, as this could make a huge difference.
Did you try mounting ext3 whith data=writeback by chance? People have
found that makes a big difference in performance.
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2003-01/msg00320.php
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