Re: Autovacuum is running forever - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: Autovacuum is running forever
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Msg-id dcc563d10708211519q7bd741b2g5912f3bdf298e908@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Autovacuum is running forever  ("Sachchida Ojha" <sojha@secure-elements.com>)
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On 8/21/07, Sachchida Ojha <sojha@secure-elements.com> wrote:
> We are having only two disk (40GB each). One disk is used for OS, App
> Server, and application. Second disk is used for postgresql database.
> It's a dual cpu machine having 2 GB of ram.

Even a single disk, with a battery backed caching controller will
generally run things like updates and inserts much faster, and is
usually a much better performance under load than a single disk.

I'd at least look at mirroring them for redundancy and better read performance.

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