X-Original-To: pgsql-performance-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (mx2.hub.org [200.46.204.254]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7C0311F7D73 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:55:39 -0300 (ADT) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Score: -2.419 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.419 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.180, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx2.hub.org [200.46.204.254]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id nA8vMERbE3wP for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:55:36 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from noel.decibel.org (noel.decibel.org [67.100.216.10]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 591E711F7C17 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:55:34 -0300 (ADT) Received: by noel.decibel.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C995356423; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 11:55:33 -0500 (CDT) Received: (hashcash-sendmail, from uid 1001); Thu, 20 Apr 2006 11:55:32 -0500 Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 11:55:32 -0500 From: "Jim C. Nasby" To: Jim Buttafuoco Cc: Simon Dale , pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Quick Performance Poll Message-ID: <20060420165532.GZ49405@pervasive.com> References: <416F947BF5BA9E40B5F9AA649422212E0756199C@ex-mail2.internal.rmplc.net> <20060420133326.M88248@contactbda.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060420133326.M88248@contactbda.com> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p4 amd64 X-Distributed: Join the Effort! http://www.distributed.net User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Hashcash: 1:20:060420:jim@contactbda.com::lyRzdp5Y9AFkAN4F:0000000000000000000 000000000000000000000000AY8G X-Hashcash: 1:20:060420:sdale@rm.com::ApOz0wAlHhGBpQff:000000QlB X-Hashcash: 1:20:060420:pgsql-performance@postgresql.org::SRRJbhFZC+8NgSU1:00000 0000000000000000000000000KQD X-Archive-Number: 200604/462 X-Sequence-Number: 18546 Interested in doing a case study for the website? On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:36:25AM -0400, Jim Buttafuoco wrote: > > Simon, > > I have many databases over 1T with the largest being ~6T. All of my databases store telecom data, such as call detail > records. The access is very fast when looking for a small subset of the data. For servers, I am using white box intel > XEON and P4 systems with SATA disks, 4G of memory. SCSI is out of our price range, but if I had unlimited $ I would go > with SCSI /SCSI raid instead. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@pervasive.com Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461