-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:11:30 -0400 Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Yeah, I'd vote for people just building private PG installations in > >> their own home directories. I am not aware of any > >> performance-testing reason why we'd want a shared installation, > >> and given that people are likely to be testing many different code > >> variants, a shared > > > The only caveat here is that our thinking was that the actual arrays > > would be able to be re-provisioned all the time. E.g; test with > > RAID 10 with x stripe size, Software RAID 6, what is the real > > difference between 28 spindles with RAID 5 versus 10? > > Well, we need some workspace that won't go away when that happens. Right which is on the internal devices. > I'd suggest that the OS and people's home directories be mounted on > a "permanent" partition with plenty of space for source code, say a > few tens of GB, and then there be a farm of data workspace that's > understood to be transient and can be reconfigured as needed for tests > like that. Agreed. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake > > regards, tom lane > > ---------------------------(end of > broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading > through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to > the mailing list cleanly > - -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http://www.commandprompt.com/ UNIQUE NOT NULL Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate PostgreSQL Replication: http://www.commandprompt.com/products/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHK5LwATb/zqfZUUQRApBQAJ9Gp+fpgOnA6ZONpdQl43giMcetZwCggv2Q 8A9FfkeP6VsQptWl1J8W4n8= =nX1C -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings