Thanks.
But there is no such risk to turning off write barriers?
I'm only specifying noatime for xfs at the moment.
Did you get a substantial performace boost from disabling write
barriers? like 10x or more like 2x?
Thanks,
Whit
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Kevin Grittner
<Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> wrote:
> "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> wrote:
>
>> Basically, you should never use fsync unless you are OK with
>> losing everything in the database server if you have an OS or
>> hardware failure.
>
> s/use/disable/
>
> -Kevin
>