Wednesday, August 06, 2014

Memory Matters

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Database performance and hardware selection are complicated topics, and a great deal has been written on that topic over the years by many v...
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Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Linux disables vm.zone_reclaim_mode by default

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Last week, Linus Torvalds merged a Linux kernel commit from Mel Gorman disabling vm.zone_reclaim_mode by default .   I mentioned that this c...
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Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Troubleshooting Database Corruption

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When your database gets corrupted, one of the most important things to do is figure out why that happened , so that you can try to ensure th...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Why The Clock is Ticking for MongoDB

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Last month, ZDNet published an interview with MongoDB CEO Max Schireson which took the position that the document databases, such as MongoD...
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Wednesday, April 02, 2014

Subtly Bad Things Linux May Be Doing To PostgreSQL

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In addition to talking about PostgreSQL at LSF/MM and Collab , I also learned a few things about the Linux kernel that I had not known befor...
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Monday, March 31, 2014

Back from LSF/MM and Collab

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Last week, I attended the Linux Storage, Filesystems, and Memory Management summit ( LSF/MM ) on Monday and Tuesday, and the Linux Collabora...
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

PostgreSQL Now Has Logical Decoding

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A few weeks ago, Josh Berkus wrote a blog post on Why HStore2/jsonb is the most important patch of 9.4 .  Everybody's going to have thei...
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