Re: the RAID question, again - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: the RAID question, again
Date
Msg-id 200304162020.50103.josh@agliodbs.com
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In response to Re: the RAID question, again  ("Nikolaus Dilger" <nikolaus@dilger.cc>)
List pgsql-performance
Vincent,

> One watchout is that the main memory of your machine
> may be better than the one of your RAID controller.
> The RAID controller has Integrated 128MB PC133 ECC
> SDRAM.  You did not state what kind of memory your
> server has.

Nickolaus has a good point.   With a high-end Linux server, and a medium-end
RAID card, it's sometimes faster to use Linux software RAID than harware
raid.  Not all the time, though.

--
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco


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