From: Frank Wiles <frank@wiles.org>
To: KeithW@NarrowPathInc.com
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Performance Tuning Article
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 08:48:54 -0500
Message-ID: <20050623084854.0776d7a7.frank@wiles.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42BA1F01.1010700@NarrowPathInc.com>
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<200506221016.03808.josh@agliodbs.com>
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<42BA1F01.1010700@NarrowPathInc.com>
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 22:31:29 -0400
Keith Worthington <KeithW@NarrowPathInc.com> wrote:
> Frank,
>
> A couple of things I wish I had been told when I started asking how to
>
> configure a new machine.
>
> Use RAID 10 (striping across mirrored disks)
> or RAID 0+1 (mirror a striped array) for your data.
> Use RAID 1 (mirror) for your OS
> Use RAID 1 (mirror) for the WAL.
>
> Don't put anything else on the array holding the WAL.
>
> There have been problems with Xeon processors.
I believe all of these issues are covered in the article, but
obviously not clearly enough. I'll work on rewording that section.
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Frank Wiles <frank@wiles.org>
http://www.wiles.org
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