On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, brauagustin-susc@yahoo.com.ar wrote:
> Which other test can I do to find if this is a hardware, kernel o
> postgres issue?
The little test hdparm does is not exactly a robust hard drive benchmark.
If you want to rule out hard drive transfer speed issues, take at look at
the tests suggested at
http://www.westnet.com/~gsmith/content/postgresql/pg-disktesting.htm and
see how your results compare to the single SATA disk example I give there.
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* Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD