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From: Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>
To: david@lang.hm
Cc: Orhan Aglagul <oaglagul@cittio.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: FW:
Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 12:36:19 +0100
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	<Pine.LNX.4.64.0705081819160.32601@asgard.lang.hm>

<david@lang.hm> writes:

> with a standard 7200 rpm drive ~150 transactions/sec sounds about right
>
> to really speed things up you want to get a disk controller with a battery
> backed cache so that the writes don't need to hit the disk to be safe.

Note that this is only if you're counting transactions/sec in a single
session. You can get much more if you have many sessions since they can all
commit together in a single disk i/o.

-- 
  Gregory Stark
  EnterpriseDB          http://www.enterprisedb.com




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