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Re: [PERFORM] A Better External Sort?


  • From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
  • To: <rjpeace(at)earthlink(dot)net>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>, <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
  • Subject: Re: [PERFORM] A Better External Sort?
  • Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:21:37 -0500
  • Message-id: <s3391d3d(dot)067(at)gwmta(dot)wicourts(dot)gov>

I can't help wondering how a couple thousand context switches per
second would affect the attempt to load disk info into the L1 and
L2 caches.  That's pretty much the low end of what I see when the
server is under any significant load.





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