Neil Conway wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jun 2002 18:50:46 -0400 > "Jon Franz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One note: SGI developers discovered they could get amazing performance using > > as hybrid threaded and forked-process model with apache - we might want to > > look into this. They even have a library for network-communication > > utilizing thier 'state threads' model. > > I think ST is designed for network I/O-bound apps -- last I checked, > disk I/O will still block an entire ST process. While you can get around > that by using another process to do disk I/O, it sounds like ST won't be > that useful. > > However, Chris KL. (I believe) raised the idea of using POSIX AIO for > PostgreSQL. Without having looked into it extensively, this technique > sounds promising. Perhaps someone who has looked into this further > (e.g. someone from Redhat) can comment?
I know Red Hat is interested in AIO. Only a few OS's support it so it was hard to get exited about it at the time, but with threading, a AIO-specific module could be attempted. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html
