On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 12:13:36PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > > > This took about a week on a 2xCPU quadcore server with 8Gb RAM. > > > > This is not the most interesting thing here. What disk I/O subsystem do > > you use? At least a hardware RAID controller with RAID 0 or 10 should > > be used, with 10krpm or 15krpm drives. SAS preferred, as on SATA the > > only quick disks are Western Digital Raptor (which aren't too bad, > > btw). > > I have got 8x720G disks in a hardware raid 5 setup. It is a Dell 2950 > server.
I thought, the 2950 can only take 6 3.5" disks? Or are these 72GB 2.5" ones? Then there are 15k SAS drives available. > I am using an XFS-filesystem. I am not certain about the > speed of the hard disk, but we bought the fastest we could get. Bye, Tino. -- „Es gibt keinen Weg zum Frieden. Der Frieden ist der Weg.” (Mahatma Gandhi) www.craniosacralzentrum.de www.forteego.de -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
