Archive for the 'IO' Category

Priorities – PostgreSQL Wiki

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

some info about managing/prioritizing resources (CPU/IO/RAM) under PostgreSQL from the project’s WIKI

CFQ – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

notes about Linux IO Scheduler – CFQ [Completely Fair Queue] . Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noop_scheduler http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticipatory_scheduling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadline_scheduler

[Linux Journal, 2004] Kernel Korner – I/O Schedulers

Friday, December 18th, 2009

Kernel Korner – I/O Schedulers

Peter Eisentraut’s Blog: Solid-State Drive Benchmarks and the Write Cache

Monday, November 16th, 2009

read this before rushing to by some SSDs

Graphing Linux Disk I/O statistics with Munin – Michael Renner’s macro-blog

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

tells you about a plugin (a perl script ) for munin that will collect linux disk IO stats and send it to munin for pretty graphs.

Optimizing Linux for random I/O on hardware RAID – Fishpool

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

explains use linux IO scheulers with presence of smart RAID controllers.