In message <407a9d5b$0$6555$cc9e4d1f_at_news-text.dial.pipex.com>, Niall
Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_dial.pipex.com> writes
>"Jim Smith" <jim_at_jimsmith.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:dS4PuczgskeAFwJq_at_jimsmith.demon.co.uk...
>> Note the cross-posting - but no flame wars please.
>>
>> This question was prompted by a thread on the a postgres mailing list
>> during which someone (Gregory Williamson) claimed
>>
>> <quote>
>> raw devices, at least on Solaris, are about 10 times as fast as cooked
>> file systems for Informix.
>> <quote>
>
>
>2. Who cares - what matters isn't the speed of the disk read, but the
>response time for the end users screens/jobs - if and only iff you can show
>that this is slow and the speed is caused by a file system would you
>consider RAW.
I didn't really ask about IO performance, I was talking about
application performance.
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Received on Tue Apr 13 2004 - 10:38:42 CDT
