Re: Optimisation help - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From dforums
Subject Re: Optimisation help
Date
Msg-id 47CDE4EA.8020206@vieonet.com
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: Optimisation help  (Alan Hodgson <ahodgson@simkin.ca>)
List pgsql-performance
tX for your reply,

I do not have more information on disk speed. I'll get it latter.

But My most fear is that for now the database is only of 10 Go.

But I will have to increase it 10 times during the next six month I'm
afraid that these problems will increase.

Regards

David

Alan Hodgson a écrit :
> On Tuesday 04 March 2008, dforums <dforums@vieonet.com> wrote:
>>  Hello
>>
>>
>>  We hace a Quad Xeon server, with 8GO of ram, sata II 750Go
>>
>>
>>  I suppose the main problem is from database server settings.
>
> No, the problem is your hard drive is too slow. One drive can only do maybe
> 150 seeks per second.
>
> Oh, and updates in PostgreSQL are expensive. But mostly I'd say it's your
> drive.
>

pgsql-performance by date:

Previous
From: Alan Hodgson
Date:
Subject: Re: Optimisation help
Next
From: dforums
Date:
Subject: Re: Optimisation help