On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 4:31 PM, Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> wrote: > 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.
That's the exact opposite of my findings on intel S3500 (see: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAHyXU0yiVvfQAnR9cyH=HWh1WbLRsioe=mzRJTHwtr=2azs...@mail.gmail.com). merlin -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers