Re: How to make a REALLY FAST db server?

At 18:35 27.9.2001, Bruce Momjian wrote the following message:
>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.

IBM Deskstar drives DPTA and DLTA and new IC35 all have tagged queuing.
FreeBSD supports that and the results are impressive - lower CPU usage and
faster disks.



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