Re: [GENERAL] Slow PITR restore

On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Zeugswetter Andreas ADI SD wrote:

> I don't follow. The problem is not writes but reads. And if the reads 
> are random enough no cache controller will help.

The specific example Tom was running was, in his words, "100% disk write 
bound".  I was commenting on why I thought that was on his system and why 
it wasn't representative of the larger problem.  You need at least a basic 
amount of write caching for this situation before the problem moves to 
being read seek bound.

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* Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD