Re: Solution (Was: Sparc has slow disk access)
> Seems that there were not an optimal bs-default value on Sparc for
> this
> test. If I set bs explicitely this way I got:
>
> Sparc/Solaris: 45s
> Sparc/Linux: 35s !! (We are really good, aren´t we?)
> PC/Linux: 61s
Gratulations
> By the way it would be of course interesting, how to adjust reading
> block size in other applications than dd. I started testing when I
> recognized that some PostgreSQL tables I created via
>
> cat tabledefinition | psql database
>
> took much more time than on my PC. Moreover I´m afraid that database
> access is slower if some parts of it do not fit into memory.
>
> Any hints how to tune that?
>
time cat smalltebledefinition | psql database -> real 0m0.306s
time psql -e database < smalltabledefinition -> real 0m0.295s
may this 0.009s help you ;-)
regards
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