Re: High I/O writes activity on disks causing images on browser to lag and not load - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: High I/O writes activity on disks causing images on browser to lag and not load
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Msg-id dcc563d10906031253t7ec24e18p7219a31b0d8c1f56@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: High I/O writes activity on disks causing images on browser to lag and not load  (Jennifer Trey <jennifer.trey@gmail.com>)
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2009/6/3 Jennifer Trey <jennifer.trey@gmail.com>:
> Not sure about that Grzegorz, its a pretty powerful computer :) and I don't
> have that much data and traffic yet..
> Normally, should the writes really be more than the reads?
> Intel Quad Core 2.4 GHz
> 8GB Memory
> Asus P5B Motherboard (Standard Version)
> Windows Web Server 2008 x64 (trial)
> PostgreSQL 32bit
> Application running Java x64 and on Jetty Server 6
> 2 Samung Disks...

Just want to point out that from a db perspective, that's not that
powerful of a computer.  Can you at least put a battery backed caching
RAID controller into it?  Even if you use the disks in JBOD mode, the
cache on the RAID controller can have a HUGE effect on performance.

More disks after that.

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