On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 02:15:52PM -0500, John Allgood wrote: > using custom scripts. Maybe I have given a better explanation of the > application. my biggest concern is how to partition the shared storage > for maximum performance. Is there a real benifit to having more that one > raid5 partition or am I wasting my time.
I think the simplest and most generic solution would be to put the OS and pg_xlog on a RAID 1 pair and dedicate the rest of the drives to RAID 5 or RAID 1+0 (striped set of mirrors) array. Depending on the nature of your work, you may get better performance by placing individual tables/indices on dedicated spindles for parallel access. -Mike Adler ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
