From: Decibel! <decibel@decibel.org>
To: Maila Fatticcioni <mfatticcioni@mbigroup.it>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: DRBD and Postgres: how to improve the perfomance?
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:22:02 -0500
Message-ID: <20070911212201.GD38801@decibel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070911145724.GB2620@uio.no>
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On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 04:57:24PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 04:47:40PM +0200, Maila Fatticcioni wrote:
> > The servers are cross connected with a common 100 Mbit/sec Ethernet so I
> > think they have a bandwidth around 80 Mbit/sec (even if I haven't yet
> > done any test on it). A rate of 70Mb seems reasonable to me.
>
> Umm, seriously? Unless that was a typo, you should consider very seriously to
> go to gigabit; it's cheap these days, and should provide you with a very
> decent speed boost if the network bandwidth is the bottleneck.
Actually, in this case, I suspect that latency will be far more critical
than overall bandwidth. I don't know if it's inherent to Gig-E, but my
limited experience has been that Gig-E has higher latency than 100mb.
--
Decibel!, aka Jim Nasby decibel@decibel.org
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)
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