On E, 2005-10-03 at 14:16 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: > Jeff, > > > > 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. > > Database reads? Or raw FS reads? It's not the same thing.
Just FYI, I run a count(*) on a 15.6GB table on a lightly loaded db and it run in 163 sec. (Dual opteron 2.6GHz, 6GB RAM, 6 x 74GB 15k disks in RAID10, reiserfs). A little less than 100MB sec. After this I ran count(*) over a 2.4GB file from another tablespace on another device (4x142GB 10k disks in RAID10) and it run 22.5 sec on first run and 12.5 on second. db=# show shared_buffers ; shared_buffers ---------------- 196608 (1 row) db=# select version(); version -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PostgreSQL 8.0.3 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC cc (GCC) 3.3.6 (Debian 1:3.3.6-7) (1 row) -- Hannu Krosing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org