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Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 05:43:15 -0400
From: Michael Stone <mstone+postgres@mathom.us>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] A Better External Sort?
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On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 12:43:10AM +0300, Hannu Krosing wrote:
>Just FYI, I run a count(*) on a 15.6GB table on a lightly loaded db and
>it run in 163 sec. (Dual opteron 2.6GHz, 6GB RAM, 6 x 74GB 15k  disks in
>RAID10, reiserfs). A little less than 100MB sec.

And none of that 15G table is in the 6G RAM?

Mike Stone