> Is it unrealistic to expect Postgres to insert on the order of 100
> records per second on a Pentium 400 MHz/SCSI class machine running
> Linux? (Solaris on a comparable platform has about 1/2 the
> performance)
I'd expect roughly equivalent performance on different platforms. I
measured the insert performance a couple of years ago and found
roughly 50 inserts per second on my dual processor, 180MHz PPro
system, which was the same performance as I had on an Ingres
installation on a medium-speed Alpha/OSF-1 box.
Without knowing more about your memory and disk setup, I'll guess that
you can use more memory, can bump buffer size by using "-B 1024" or
something similar, and running without mandatory fsync() (use the "-F"
option). However, istm that your system should do better than 10ips
before you invoke "-F", otherwise you'll just be working around
another underlying problem/bottleneck.
Good luck.
- Thomas
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Thomas Lockhart lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu
South Pasadena, California
