From: Alan Hodgson <ahodgson@simkin.ca>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Optimisation help
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 13:03:58 -0800
Message-ID: <200803041303.58321@hal.medialogik.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47CDCB62.9070302@vieonet.com>
References: <47CDCB62.9070302@vieonet.com>
On Tuesday 04 March 2008, dforums <dforums@vieonet.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
>
> We hace a Quad Xeon server, with 8GO of ram, sata II 750Go
>
>
> I suppose the main problem is from database server settings.
No, the problem is your hard drive is too slow. One drive can only do maybe
150 seeks per second.
Oh, and updates in PostgreSQL are expensive. But mostly I'd say it's your
drive.
--
Alan
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