Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.184]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7F069F9456 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 10:02:51 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 92700-08 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 10:02:37 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: delayed 00:06:40.61626 by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from ik-out-1112.google.com (ik-out-1112.google.com [66.249.90.179]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6CBF9F99BC for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 10:02:41 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ik-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id c21so196172ika for ; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 06:02:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:subject:from:reply-to:to:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; bh=YNXnMWKY97DUFA9Wx1yOr7PNiMLg/F6U8t+WcdEmBBc=; b=W7tzfJsZajZhO6olHheEcyF04sWOTJPgq3TnJNLtTYi7maZxeX4gb3goMEuXbKfhBwoC8Tothgb4kPBaqSc46mI5wWSdZ4d1vTE4zalpAZJSGMC5093rPCXfDWwlyNS2xM7Hng4hjZagCr19T0BBNrQLnz7D8PrWhgKFJjgJ+9o= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:subject:from:reply-to:to:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=oR8uvaUG3k1B9TRIlS7CKD5+OxtlEW3j4nV2wZfK8hvCVy7hNtCI7wAHjzrePngjzdQH4nYkVWsL8W/bkUBvJ7rSIZxmqGVZRulLXYhMopwRvzePkFk71xr2502Azm7y3pQNQpb0mimDzQphUd3bv64VB65aEX3xSmDr/4RYlPY= Received: by 10.150.124.2 with SMTP id w2mr63424ybc.1193921750368; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 05:55:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.212? ( [206.114.45.106]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 14sm217838nzp.2007.11.01.05.55.47 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 01 Nov 2007 05:55:48 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Hardware for PostgreSQL From: Adam Tauno Williams Reply-To: adamtaunowilliams@gmail.com To: pgsql-performance In-Reply-To: <1193903161.9148.27.camel@neuromancer.home.net> References: <1193849108.591961.103570@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> <4728FAA1.7060905@fuzzy.cz> <1193889182.7999.71.camel@neuromancer.home.net> <4729783A.2030201@hagander.net> <1193903161.9148.27.camel@neuromancer.home.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 08:56:46 -0400 Message-Id: <1193921806.4608.5.camel@WM_ADAM1.morrison.iserv.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200711/9 X-Sequence-Number: 27424 > > You're likely better off (performance-wise) putting it on the same disk > > as the database itself if that one has better RAID, for example. > I'm thinking along the lines of since nothing much writes to the OS > Disk, I should(keyword) be safe. You are almost certainly wrong about this; think "syslog" -- Adam Tauno Williams, Network & Systems Administrator Consultant - http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com Developer - http://www.opengroupware.org