Re: [PERFORM] Transaction Log

2007-08-29 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Wednesday 29 August 2007, Steve Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are higher end ones that do have ECC RAM (and backup drives and > stuff) but they're spectacularly more expensive than the cheapo > consumer ones. > Yeah the good ones look more like http://ramsan.com/ . -- "Pulling tog

Re: [PERFORM] Transaction Log

2007-08-29 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Mark Mielke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > For best performance, the transaction log should be on a separate disk. > > > > Does the writing of the log benefit from a battery backed controller > > as well? If not, what do people think about writing the transact

Re: [PERFORM] Transaction Log

2007-08-29 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 01:11:32PM -0700, Steve Atkins wrote: > It think the general conclusion was "When they come out with an ECC > version, we'll look at them." FWIW, it shouldn't be impossible to implement ECC in software; they'd still be orders of magnitude faster than normal disks. /* Stei

Re: [PERFORM] Transaction Log

2007-08-29 Thread Steve Atkins
On Aug 29, 2007, at 12:54 PM, Mark Mielke wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For best performance, the transaction log should be on a separate disk. Does the writing of the log benefit from a battery backed controller as well? If not, what do people think about writing the transaction log

Re: [PERFORM] Transaction Log

2007-08-29 Thread Mark Mielke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For best performance, the transaction log should be on a separate disk. Does the writing of the log benefit from a battery backed controller as well? If not, what do people think about writing the transaction log to a flash card or the like? How popular are the batter

[PERFORM] Transaction Log

2007-08-29 Thread Markus Benne
For best performance, the transaction log should be on a separate disk. Does the writing of the log benefit from a battery backed controller as well? If not, what do people think about writing the transaction log to a flash card or the like?

[PERFORM] Transaction Log

2007-08-29 Thread mbguy2000-1
For best performance, the transaction log should be on a separate disk. Does the writing of the log benefit from a battery backed controller as well? If not, what do people think about writing the transaction log to a flash card or the like?