On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 3:15 AM, Tim McNamara
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Sridhar & others
> How do 7200rpm SATA hard drive speeds match up under this much simultaneous
> load?

HD speeds won't make any noticeable difference.

Your bottlenecks are

 - RAM
 - HD access -- split the load across more disks. Specifically: put
PostgreSQL data in a separate disk.
 - RAM! :-)
 - HD!
 - RAM
 - (repeat on RAM and HD several times...)
 - CPU

cheers,



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