If your nightly process is heavily read-only, then raid5 is probably
fine. If however, there is a significant write component then it would
perhaps be worth getting another disk and converting to raid10
(alternatively - see previous postings about raid cards with on-board
cache). Are you
Tom Lane mentioned :
= Turn off
= memory overallocation in your kernel to get more stable behavior when
= pushing the limits of available memory.
I think this will already help a lot.
Thanks!!
= If your concern is with a single nightly process, then that quad Xeon is
= doing squat for you,
