Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> "Performs best" is pretty elusive. On Solaris 10, for example, fdatasync
> does best on pgbench on x86, but opendatasync does best on DBT2 on Sparc.
> I'm not certain we can really determine this with any accuracy.
Yeah, if it were easy we've have done it already :-(. One thing that
would be useful though is to try to gather datapoints like the above
for a range of different operating systems. Even if we could tell
people "here are the two or three settings worth trying for your OS",
we'd be ahead of the game.
regards, tom lane