Re: Looking for bottleneck during load test - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Bill Moran
Subject Re: Looking for bottleneck during load test
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Msg-id 20080407164954.844a197b.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com
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In response to Re: Looking for bottleneck during load test  (Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com>)
List pgsql-performance
In response to Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com>:

> On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Bill Moran wrote:
>
> > You know, with all the performance problems people have been bringing up
> > with regard to SANs, I'm putting SAN in the same category as RAID-5 ...
>
> Not really fair, because unlike RAID5 it's at least *possible* to get good
> write performance out of a SAN.  Just harder than most people think it is.

*shrug*  "in theory" it's possible to get good write performance out of
RAID-5 as well, with fast enough disks and enough cache ...

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Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.
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