On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 20:38 -0500, Nikolas Everett wrote: > In my limited experience ext4 as presented by Karmic is not db > friendly. I had to carve my swap partition into a swap partition and > an xfs partition to get better db performance. Try fsync=off first, > but if that doesn't work then try a mini xfs. Do not turn fsync off. That is bad advice. I would not suggest ext4 at this point for database operations. Use ext3. It is backward compatible. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering If the world pushes look it in the eye and GRR. Then push back harder. - Salamander -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
