From: J. Roeleveld <joost@antarean.org>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: How to achieve sustained disk performance of 1.25 GB write for 5 mins
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:25:02 +0100
Message-ID: <201011171625.03097.joost@antarean.org> (raw)
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On Wednesday 17 November 2010 15:26:56 Eric Comeau wrote:
> This is not directly a PostgreSQL performance question but I'm hoping
> some of the chaps that build high IO PostgreSQL servers on here can help.
>
> We build file transfer acceleration s/w (and use PostgreSQL as our
> database) but we need to build a test server that can handle a sustained
> write throughput of 1,25 GB for 5 mins.
>
> Why this number, because we want to push a 10 Gbps network link for 5-8
> mins, 10Gbps = 1.25 GB write, and would like to drive it for 5-8 mins
> which would be 400-500 GB.
>
> Note this is just a "test" server therefore it does not need fault
> tolerance.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Eric
I'm sure there are others with more experience on this, but if you don't need
failt tolerance, a bunch of fast disks in striping-mode (so-called RAID-0) on
seperated channels (eg. different PCI-Express channels) would be my first step.
Alternatively, if you don't care if the data is actually stored, couldn't you
process it with a program that does a checksum over the data transmitted and
then ignores/forgets it? (eg. forget about disk-storage and do it all in
memory?)
--
Joost
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