On 8/24/05, Alexandre Barros <alexandre@vectorx.com.br> wrote:
> i wouldn't be so stunned if the newer machine was ( say ) twice faster
> than the older server, but over three times faster is disturbing.
RAID5 on so few spindles is a known losing case for PostgreSQL. You'd
be far, far better off doing a pair of RAID1 sets or a single RAID10
set.
/rls
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