Re: Performance query about large tables, lots of concurrent access - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Michael Stone
Subject Re: Performance query about large tables, lots of concurrent access
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Msg-id 20070625113746.GY19959@mathom.us
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In response to Re: Performance query about large tables, lots of concurrent access  (Karl Wright <kwright@metacarta.com>)
Responses Re: Performance query about large tables, lots of concurrent access  (Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@verizon.net>)
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On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 12:29:49PM -0400, Karl Wright wrote:
>I checked the disk picture - this is a RAID disk array with 6 drives,
>with a bit more than 1Tbyte total storage.  15,000 RPM.  It would be
>hard to get more/faster disk than that.

Well, it's not hard to more disk than that, but you'd probably have to
look at an external storage array (or more than one). A larger number of
larger/slower drives, splitting indices away from data, etc., will
almost certainly outperform 6 disks, 15k RPM or not.

Mike Stone

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