The 1+0 on the WAL is better than on PGDATA? I guess I'm confused about the
write sequence of the data. I will research more, thank you!
-Kenji
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 04:59:09PM -0500, Thomas F. O'Connell wrote:
>
> On Aug 8, 2006, at 4:49 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
> >>I am considering a setup such as this:
> >> - At least dual cpu (possibly with 2 cores each)
> >> - 4GB of RAM
> >> - 2 disk RAID 1 array for root disk
> >> - 4 disk RAID 1+0 array for PGDATA
> >> - 2 disk RAID 1 array for pg_xlog
> >>Does anyone know a vendor that might be able provide such setup?
>
> Wouldn't it be preferable to put WAL on a multi-disk RAID 10 if you
> had the opportunity? This gives you the redundancy of RAID 1 but
> approaches the performance of RAID 0, especially as you add disks to
> the array. In benchmarking, I've seen consistent success with this
> approach.
>
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