Re: Hardware recommendations to scale to silly load - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Hardware recommendations to scale to silly load
Date
Msg-id 200308300244.h7U2i4S12751@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Hardware recommendations to scale to silly load  (matt <matt@ymogen.net>)
Responses Re: Hardware recommendations to scale to silly load
Re: Hardware recommendations to scale to silly load
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matt wrote:
> > Are you *sure* about that????  3K updates/inserts per second xlates
> > to 10,800,000 per hour.  That, my friend, is a WHOLE HECK OF A LOT!
>
> Yup, I know!

Just a data point, but on my Dual Xeon 2.4Gig machine with a 10k SCSI
drive I can do 4k inserts/second if I turn fsync off.  If you have a
battery-backed controller, you should be able to do the same.  (You will
not need to turn fsync off --- fsync will just be fast because of the
disk drive RAM).

Am I missing something?

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