Re: 8.3 / 8.2.6 restore comparison

From: Mark Wong <markwkm(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 8.3 / 8.2.6 restore comparison
Date: 2008-02-08 01:41:48
Message-ID: 20080207174148.3e08b9cf.markwkm@gmail.com
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On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:47:22 -0500
Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > I know Luke has mentioned some issues in the past as well around CPU
> > boundness with an upper limit of 300M/s (IIRC) but even that doesn't
> > equate to what is going on here as we are not getting anywhere near
> > that.
>
> Some vmstat and oprofile investigation seems called for. Right now
> we're just guessing about what the bottleneck is.

I also recommend looking into partition alignment on the disks. At
least to quantify how much the storage subsystem suffers from
mis-aligned partitions. It could be that it doesn't.

Regards,
Mark

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