On 5.2.2012 00:25, Tomas Vondra wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been running a lot of benchmarks recently (I'll publish the results > once I properly analyze them). One thing I'd like to demonstrate is the > effect of direct I/O when the wal_fsync_method is set to > open_sync/open_datasync. > > I.e. I'd like to see cases when this improves/hurts performance > (compared to fsync/fdatasync) and if/how this works on SSD compared to > old-fashioned HDD. But no matter what, I see no significant differences > in performance. BTW the benchmark suite I run consists of two parts: (a) read-write pgbench (b) TPC-H-like benchmark that loads a few GBs of data (and then queries them) I'd expect to see the effect on the TPC-H load part, and maybe on the pgbench (not sure if positive or negative). > All this was run on a kernel 3.1.5 using an ext4 filesystem. And the Pg versions tested were 9.1.2 and the current 9.2dev snapshot. Tomas -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance