From: "Bruce Momjian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On an idle system, would someone dirty a large file, and watch the
disk
> I/O to see how long it takes for the I/O to complete to disk?
I ran "dd if=/dev/zero of= bs=8k count=`expr 1048576
/ 8`, that is, writing 1GB file with 8KB write()'s. It took abou
Hello, Inaam-san,
> There are four IO schedulers in Linux. Anticipatory, CFQ (default),
deadline, and noop. For typical OLTP type loads generally deadline is
recommended. If you are constrained on CPU and you have a good controller
then its better to use noop.
> Deadline attempts to merge requests
Installing postgresql 8.2.0 on Windows XP Pro SP2 using the msi installer dated
2006-12-04, with libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll (both dated 2005-07-06) (and
libiconv-2.dll, libintl-2.dll, and libpq.dll) from a previous installation (of
version 8.0.5) already present in c:\windows\system32. These
