We've found these tools
http://scsirastools.sourceforge.net/ and
http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/ (for seagate drives)
to check the settings of scsi disks and to change settings for seagate
drives.
What are people using for IDE disks?
Are you all using hdparm on linux
http://freshmeat.net
On 16/01/2004, at 2:44 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
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As noted elsewhere, it's highly likely that this has nothing to do with
the OS, and everything to do with write caching in the disks being
used.
I assume you are benchmarking small individual transactions (one insert
per xact). In such scenarios it'
I've read most of the threads on insert speed in this list and wanted
to share some interesting observations and a question.
We've been benchmarking some dbs to implement Bayesian processing on an
email server. This involves frequent insert and updates to the
following table:
create table baye
