Re: PostgreSQL and Linux 2.6 kernel.

It says:

Using anticipatory io scheduler.

This then fits with the earlier post on other observations of up to 10 
times better performance, which I what I was seeing in in certain 
circumstances.

Cheers,
Gary.


On 4 Apr 2004 at 6:04, Cott Lang wrote:

> On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 01:56, Gary Doades wrote:
> > Unfortunately I don't understand the question!
> > 
> > My background is the primarily Win32. The last time I used a *nix OS 
> > was about 20 years ago apart from occasional dips into the linux OS 
> > over the past few years. If you can tell be how to find out what you want 
> > I will gladly give you the information.
> 
> There are two available io schedulers in 2.6 (new feature), deadline and
> anticipatory. It should show be listed in the boot messages:
> 
> dmesg | grep scheduler
> 
> I've seen people arguing for each of the two schedulers, saying one is
> better than the other for databases. I'm curious which one you're
> using.  :)
> 
> 
> 
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