Re: Benchmark: Dell/Perc 6, 8 disk RAID 10

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On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:01:50 -0400 (EDT)
Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Craig James wrote:
> 
> >> wal_sync_method = open_sync
> 
> There was a bug report I haven't had a chance to investigate yet that 
> suggested some recent Linux versions have issues when using
> open_sync. I'd suggest popping that back to the default for now
> unless you have time to really do a long certification process that
> your system runs reliably with it turned on.

Well the default would be ugly, that's fsync, fdatasync is probably a
better choice in that case.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake


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