[CentOS] disk I/O problems and Solutions
Alan McKay
alan.mckay at gmail.com
Fri Oct 9 17:55:35 UTC 2009
> Since you stated that your system is only having trouble at writes,
> doing batch inserts, I would look at how you are doing these batch
> inserts and see if you can optimize this by using techniques to delay
> key writes or adjust locking mechanisms on the insert. Some databases
> have special insert from file or bulk insert operations that are much
> faster than running many single row inserts - be sure you are taking
> advantage of these methods.
Yeah, our DB geeks have already said a few weeks ago that they think
we are doing these bulk updates in a pretty inefficient manner, so
that's something else we plan to optimize.
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