X-Original-To: pgsql-performance-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [64.117.224.130]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87A0BD1B539 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 2003 16:58:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([64.117.224.193]) by localhost (neptune.hub.org [64.117.224.130]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 38037-03 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 2003 13:58:39 -0300 (ADT) Received: from davinci.ethosmedia.com (unknown [209.128.84.228]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C26ED1B56B for ; Mon, 18 Aug 2003 13:58:38 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [63.195.55.98] (HELO spooky) by davinci.ethosmedia.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.0.2) with ESMTP id 3523788; Mon, 18 Aug 2003 09:58:31 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Josh Berkus Organization: Aglio Database Solutions To: Christopher Browne , pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Insert performance Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 09:57:59 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <3F3E3B47.13828.333B51D9@localhost> <200308161140.59764.josh@agliodbs.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200308180957.59891.josh@agliodbs.com> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Archive-Number: 200308/285 X-Sequence-Number: 3101 Chris, > My expectations of a Netra wouldn't be terribly high, either; they > seem to exist as a product so that people that need a cheap Sun box > have an option. They are mostly running IDE disk, and the latest > IA-32 hardware is likely to have newer faster interface options. Neither are ours ... we bought an array of 1U Netras as a dot-com closeout. At $330 per machine including OS, they were a darned good deal, and with 4 of them the redundancy makes up for the lack of individual server performance. -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco