On 12/10/15 2:58 PM, Tory M Blue wrote:
This is a slony slave node, so I'm not too worried about this particular host losing it's data, thus fsync is off,
The Amazon RDS team actually benchmarked fsync=off vs sync commit off and discovered that you get better performance turning sync commit off and leaving fsync alone in some cases. In other cases the difference isn't enough to be worth it.
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