Re: Raid 10 chunksize - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Matthew Wakeling
Subject Re: Raid 10 chunksize
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Msg-id alpine.DEB.2.00.0904011757580.21772@aragorn.flymine.org
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In response to Re: Raid 10 chunksize  (Stef Telford <stef@ummon.com>)
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On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Stef Telford wrote:
>    Good UPS, a warm PITR standby, offsite backups and regular checks is
> "good enough" for me, and really, that's what it all comes down to.
> Mitigating risk and factors into an 'acceptable' amount for each person.
> However, if you see over a 2x improvement from turning write-cache 'on'
> and have everything else in place, well, that seems like a 'no-brainer'
> to me, at least ;)

In that case, buying a battery-backed-up cache in the RAID controller
would be even more of a no-brainer.

Matthew

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