Hi
>> Also, we're running the db on ext3 with noatime. Should I look at
>> changing or getting rid of journaling ?
>
> No (unless you like really long fsck times). data=writeback is safe with
> PostgreSQL, though.
I tested that on a dev box, and I didn't notice a difference when using
pgbench
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