On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 7:58 PM, Dong Ye wrote:
>
>> As Heikki commented, VMware recently compared Postgres performance in
>> an ESX (5.1) VM versus in a comparable native Linux. We saw 1.
>> ESX-level locking causes no vertical scalability
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 7:58 PM, Dong Ye wrote:
> As Heikki commented, VMware recently compared Postgres performance in
> an ESX (5.1) VM versus in a comparable native Linux. We saw 1.
> ESX-level locking causes no vertical scalability degradation, 2.
FYI Vmware has an optimized version of Postg
> There was some earlier comment in this discussion about not using NFS
> datastores for Postgres VMDK's. Would you think you'd see a difference in
> scalability behavior or performance in these tests if a NFS datastore would
> be used instead? Provided the architecture is properly setup for tha
> >
> > I would also make sure to check that the hypervisor does write to
> permanent storage before returning to the VM with acknowledgement.
> >
> In the case of ESX, there is no such concern per
> http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1008542.
Very useful info!
> As Heikki commented, VMware recently comp