Re: 8.4.1 ubuntu karmic slow createdb

[Nikolas Everett <nik9000@xxxxxxxxx>]

Turning fsync off on a dev database is a bad idea?  Sure you might kill it and have to start over, but thats kind of the point in a dev database.

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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


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