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Subject: Re: Benchmark: Dell/Perc 6, 8 disk RAID 10
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Hi Justin,

Il giorno 17/mar/08, alle ore 20:38, Justin ha scritto:
> it is a RAID 10 controller with 6 SAS 10K 73 gig drives.    The  
> server is 3 weeks old now.
>
> it has 16 gigs of RAM
> 2 quad core Xenon 1.88 Ghz processors
> 2 gig Ethernet cards. RAID controller perc 6/i with battery backup  
> 512meg cache, setup not lie about fsync
>
> WAL is on a RAID 0 drive along with the OS

Did you try with a single raid 10 hosting DB + WAL? It gave me much  
better performances on similar hardware
Bye,
e.