Dmitry,

Your guess is correct: Super Server architecture.
Reliability in this context means for me having no database
corruption after a power failure or kernel panic.

Aldo Caruso

El 19/08/14 a las 06:12, Dmitry Yemanov dimitr@...
[firebird-support] escibió:

> 18.08.2014 22:51, Aldo Caruso wrote:
>> For reliability reasons, I decided to turn on forced writes on a
>> database running on Linux.
> What is FB architecture: SS / CS / SC? I suspect SS given your default
> cache size (2048 pages) but it's worth double checking.
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>> 1) Does it makes sense to activate forced writes on Linux ?
> It depends on what reliability means to you.
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>> 2) Is increasing the page size the right approach to improve performance
>> ? Which are the drawbacks of setting page size to 16K ?
> The cost is a higher concurrency for the same pages under parallel load.
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>> 3) The same question stands for cache pages: is it useful ( or has
>> disadvantages ) to have so many cache pages as there are on disk pages (
>> provided there is enough RAM size ) ?
> It would surely not hurt.
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