This comment by the author I think tends to support my theory that most
of the
failures seen are firmware related (and not due to actual hardware
failures, which
as I mentioned in the previous thread are very rare and should occur
roughly equally
often in hard drives as SSDs) :
/As we expla
News update for anyone else who's trapped like me, waiting for a fix to
the Intel 320 SSD bug where they can truncate themselves to 8MB. Over
the weekend Intel has announced a firmware fix for the problem is done,
and is due to ship "within the next two weeks":
http://communities.intel.com/th
On 08/14/2011 01:33 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
(The changes in question were purely for performance, and involved a
conversion from write barriers in the block layer to flush+fua, whatever
that is.) Furthermore, this affected every filesystem not only ext4,
so it really entirely fails to support Greg's
> -Original Message-
> From: hyelluas [mailto:helen_yell...@mcafee.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 5:30 PM
> To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
> Subject: How to see memory usage using explain analyze ?
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> Hello,
>
> I need to compare quiery execution : I have 2 tables partition
