Re: 10K vs 15k rpm for analytics - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Francisco Reyes
Subject Re: 10K vs 15k rpm for analytics
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Msg-id cone.1267568814.896051.32557.1000@shelca
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In response to 10K vs 15k rpm for analytics  (Francisco Reyes <lists@stringsutils.com>)
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david@lang.hm writes:

> what filesystem is being used. There is a thread on the linux-kernel
> mailing list right now showing that ext4 seems to top out at ~360MB/sec
> while XFS is able to go to 500MB/sec+

EXT3 on Centos 5.4

Plan to try and see if I have time with the new machines to try FreeBSD+ZFS.
ZFS supposedly makes good use of memory and the new machines will have 72GB
of RAM.

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