Re: [PERFORM] to fsync or not to fsync (ext3?)

2004-07-06 Thread Rodrigo Filgueira
Frank, thanks for your answer, This article http://www.linuxjournal.com/print.php?sid=5841 evaluates performance from a relational database point of view and it concludes that ext3 is faster. The articles you provided evaluate filesystems by using basic shell commands, copy, tar, touch. I really

Re: [PERFORM] to fsync or not to fsync

2004-07-06 Thread Frank Hsueh
Rodrigo, > Hello there, I'm trying to make sure my postgres 7.4 is running as fast > as it can in my box. > ... > My Software config is: > > RedHat 7.3 - 2.4.20-28.7smp Kernel, reporting four processors because of > hyper threading. > Postgres 7.4 > Data directory is on a ext3 journaled filesys