Re: Question regarding the file system - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: Question regarding the file system
Date
Msg-id 200411081731.22491.josh@agliodbs.com
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In response to Question regarding the file system  (Gabriele Bartolini <angusgb@tin.it>)
List pgsql-performance
Gabriele,

> By any chance, do you have some reference or some tests that talk about the
> fact that RAID5 with less than 5 disks is not performing?

Just this list.  But it's easy to test yourself; run bonnie++ and compare the
performance of seeks and random writes (which PG does a lot of) vs. a plain
single disk.

--
--Josh

Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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