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From: dforums <dforums@vieonet.com>
To: Alan Hodgson <ahodgson@simkin.ca>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Optimisation help
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:10:18 +0000
Message-ID: <47CDE4EA.8020206@vieonet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200803041303.58321@hal.medialogik.com>
References: <47CDCB62.9070302@vieonet.com>
	<200803041303.58321@hal.medialogik.com>

tX for your reply,

I do not have more information on disk speed. I'll get it latter.

But My most fear is that for now the database is only of 10 Go.

But I will have to increase it 10 times during the next six month I'm 
afraid that these problems will increase.

Regards

David

Alan Hodgson a écrit :
> 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.
> 



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