X-Original-To: pgsql-performance-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2A169DC9FC for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:11:22 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 11256-06 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:11:24 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from asgard1.americatelsal.com (asgard.americatelsal.com [200.13.161.7]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27D129DC889 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:11:18 -0400 (AST) Received: (qmail 71668 invoked from network); 20 Mar 2006 23:34:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.10.124?) (200.13.161.68) by asgard1.americatelsal.com with SMTP; 20 Mar 2006 23:34:02 -0000 Message-ID: <441F3775.3090808@123.com.sv> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 17:15:01 -0600 From: Miguel User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vivek Khera CC: Postgresql Performance Subject: Re: Best OS & Configuration for Dual Xeon w/4GB & Adaptec References: <20060317221116.GA14661@juniper.net> <8F6490E1-64E2-406B-A559-7DA8BA1EB197@khera.org> <441F161D.7010502@123.com.sv> <441F34EA.6020100@123.com.sv> <5919B132-34DA-4B3F-ABB7-1E6B4030EA9F@khera.org> In-Reply-To: <5919B132-34DA-4B3F-ABB7-1E6B4030EA9F@khera.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.03 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.030] X-Spam-Score: 0.03 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200603/356 X-Sequence-Number: 17793 Vivek Khera wrote: > > On Mar 20, 2006, at 6:04 PM, Miguel wrote: > >> Umm, in my box i see better seektimes but worst transfer rates, does >> it make sense? >> i think i have something wrong, the question i cant answer is what >> tunning am i missing? > > > Well, I forgot to mention I have 15k RPM disks, so the transfers > should be faster. > > I did no tuning to the disk configurations. I think your controller > is either just not supported well in FreeBSD, or is bad in general... :-( I guess you are right, i made a really bad choice, i better look at dell next time, thanks --- Miguel