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Greg Smith:
> Flexibility is often expensive from a performance point of view. We
> regularly tell people here that they have to avoid using Linux's LVM for
> similar reasons--while it shouldn't be so slow, it is. Nothing you can
> do about it
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Greg Smith:
> What you should do is the following:
> postgresql.conf: wal_sync_method = open_datasync
> /sql/pg_xlog: 'noatime,cio,mincache=direct,convosync=direct
> That should work quite well.
Thanks. That reduced the import time to about 4hr
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Hi,
I'm running Postgres 8.3.7 on Solaris 10 x64, using VxFS/VxVM 5.0 MP3.
I'm trying to determine the best storage configuration for my workload,
so I ran some tests of Postgres performance with various combinations of
VM and filesystem. What I noti
