I am a Data Architect for Shutterfly Inc. in Redwood Shores, CA.
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Fusion-io SSD
I got the opportunity to test out some of the new Fusion-io Solid State ioDrive, and I thought I would post some results. Fusion-io has created a SSD product called ioDrive that is based on PCIe cards vs replacing SAS … Continue reading
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Tuning for very large shared_buffers, using Veritas VxFS
The debate about the optimum shared_buffers size in PostgreSQL is clearly far from over. However, I have not seen any results where the buffer cache and the FS cache were tuned in unison. Because PostgreSQL knows what buffers are in … Continue reading