Re: Filesystem benchmarking for pg 8.3.3 server - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Mark Wong
Subject Re: Filesystem benchmarking for pg 8.3.3 server
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In response to Re: Filesystem benchmarking for pg 8.3.3 server  (Henrik <henke@mac.se>)
Responses Re: Filesystem benchmarking for pg 8.3.3 server
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On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 8:08 AM, Henrik <henke@mac.se> wrote:
> But random writes should be faster on a RAID10 as it doesn't need to
> calculate parity. That is why people suggest RAID 10 for datases, correct?
> I can understand that RAID5 can be faster with sequential writes.

There is some data here that does not support that RAID5 can be faster
than RAID10 for sequential writes:

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/HP_ProLiant_DL380_G5_Tuning_Guide

Regards,
Mark

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