On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 13:34 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: > Michael, > > > >Realistically, you can't do better than about 25MB/s on a > > > single-threaded I/O on current Linux machines, > > > > What on earth gives you that idea? Did you drop a zero? > > Nope, LOTS of testing, at OSDL, GreenPlum and Sun. For comparison, A > Big-Name Proprietary Database doesn't get much more than that either.
I find this claim very suspicious. I get single-threaded reads in excess of 1GB/sec with XFS and > 250MB/sec with ext3. -jwb ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq