On 09/02/2015 02:25 PM, Tomas Vondra wrote: > > As I explained, spindles have very little to do with it - you need > multiple I/O requests per device, to get the benefit. Sure, the DBAs > should know how many spindles they have and should be able to determine > optimal IO depth. But we actually say this in the docs:
My experience with performance tuning is that values above 3 have no real effect on how queries are executed. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers