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voldacar on Nov 14, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Turning PostgreSQL into a queue serving 10k jobs p...

I'm not very knowledgable about db internals so sorry if this comes off as ignorant, but in an era where cpus execute billions of instructions per second per core, is 10000 jobs per second supposed to be impressive? Is this kind of problem bottlenecked by memory?

qaq on Nov 14, 2019 [–]

by IOPS you fsync transaction to Write Ahead Log (WAL) on commit.

Noumenon72 on Nov 16, 2019 | [–]

Is this supposed to explain why 10000 per second is impressive? I don't follow.

qaq on Nov 18, 2019 | | [–]

This is supposed to explain that it's orthogonal to CPU performance.

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