"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. 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. 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