From: Michael Monnerie <michael.monnerie@it-management.at>
To: Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Handling large volumes of data
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 12:01:14 +0200
Message-ID: <200804081201.15175@zmi.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080408094233.GG13409@sun.ac.za>
References: <20080408094233.GG13409@sun.ac.za>
On Dienstag, 8. April 2008 Johann Spies wrote:
> This took about a week on a 2xCPU quadcore server with 8Gb RAM.
This is not the most interesting thing here. What disk I/O subsystem do
you use? At least a hardware RAID controller with RAID 0 or 10 should
be used, with 10krpm or 15krpm drives. SAS preferred, as on SATA the
only quick disks are Western Digital Raptor (which aren't too bad,
btw).
mfg zmi
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