Linux Plumbers Conference: Filesystem I/O under a database workload
Gabrielle and I are at it again, talking about Filesystem I/O and Linux at the Linux Plumbers Conference. Mark Wong is the evil performance genius working with us behind the scenes, and a copy of what we brought to the conference today is here.
Takeaway: Set your read ahead buffer size higher in the kernel - maybe even 8MB.
[...] our Portland PostgreSQL Performance Pad (AKA Performance Lab). Gabrielle and I gave a version of this talk at the Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC). Mark and Gabrielle will be adding a few more details and providing results from additional [...]
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