On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:43:05 -0300 Alexandre Barros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've googled a little, and maybe the cluster size might be one > problem, but despite that, the performance dropping when running on > "server-class" hardware with RAID-5 SCSI-2 drives was way above my > most delirious expectations... i need some help to figure out what is > **so** wrong... RAID-5 isn't great for databases in general. What would be better would be to mirror the disks to redundancy or do RAID 1+0. You could probably also increase your shared_buffers some, but that alone most likely won't make up your speed difference. --------------------------------- Frank Wiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.wiles.org --------------------------------- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq
