Re: Some pgbench results - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bernhard Weisshuhn
Subject Re: Some pgbench results
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Msg-id 4422792C.4070909@weisshuhn.de
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In response to Some pgbench results  ("Just Someone" <just.some@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Some pgbench results  (Jim Nasby <jnasby@pervasive.com>)
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Just Someone wrote:

> 2 10K SCSI disks in RAID1 for OS and WAL (with it's own partiton on
> ext3),

You'll want the WAL on its own spindle. IIRC a separate partition on a
shared disc won't give you much benefit. The idea is to keep the disc's
head from moving away for other tasks. Or so they say.

regards,
bkw

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