X-Original-To: pgsql-performance-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFFDB52C9E for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 20:04:15 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 54863-09 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 23:04:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from floppy.pyrenet.fr (news.pyrenet.fr [194.116.145.2]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40D3C52C7D for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 20:04:01 -0300 (ADT) Received: by floppy.pyrenet.fr (Postfix, from userid 106) id D522030B42; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 01:11:21 +0200 (MET DST) From: Chris Browne X-Newsgroups: pgsql.performance Subject: Re: Cheap RAM disk? Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 18:12:10 -0400 Organization: cbbrowne Computing Inc Lines: 22 Message-ID: <60hdeh1akl.fsf@dba2.int.libertyrms.com> References: <42E6661D.3060304@arbash-meinel.com> <1122399740.12728.1.camel@toonses.gghcwest.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.hub.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.17 (Jumbo Shrimp, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:upRZs9A+mI8OnclikGjycaSsg0E= To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.122 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=AWL X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200507/410 X-Sequence-Number: 13651 jwbaker@acm.org ("Jeffrey W. Baker") writes: > I haven't tried this product, but the microbenchmarks seem truly > slow. I think you would get a similar benefit by simply sticking a > 1GB or 2GB DIMM -- battery-backed, of course -- in your RAID > controller. Well, the microbenchmarks were pretty pre-sophomoric, essentially trying to express how the device would be useful to a Windows user that *might* play games... I'm sure it's hurt by the fact that it's using a SATA ("version 1") interface rather than something faster. Mind you, I'd like to see the product succeed, because they might come up with a "version 2" of it that is what I'd really like... -- (format nil "~S@~S" "cbbrowne" "acm.org") http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/sap.html Rules of the Evil Overlord #78. "I will not tell my Legions of Terror "And he must be taken alive!" The command will be: ``And try to take him alive if it is reasonably practical.''"