On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Karl Denninger <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > More importantly when you run out of I/O bandwidth "bad things" tend to > happen very quickly; the degradation of performance when you hit the IO wall > is extreme to the point of being essentially a "zeropoint event." Or as I like to put it IO bandwidth has sharp knees. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
