Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.191]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D3589F97A3 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 12:46:44 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.191]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 95612-01 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 12:46:41 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com (rv-out-0910.google.com [209.85.198.184]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7EA89F9767 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 12:45:25 -0300 (ADT) Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id l15so1369004rvb for ; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:45:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=CMnPHJtotYWUemOP++Z3FazlNYtnPVAM6WGh3NWhXZi+MxMlwHHSFR4sI5UcbFjOKrAqyNAIeRZRGRKv/1pWXSziH4fblpAFP6HNJBA34qjjtCZ8OzFF5M6jOnpWH1SAiqXEZs0m5Qn/GlCiugw6Pbzj5ktyOdTT3kfsti3NFGI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Tn15FHAg5YdND9pQHNe/FTgJ+I/BTfe81BGq9mzhs16Fn+yt6Jp66y7JsClYSon0PhEuj7bcYwwku24VBczrMu5ujGtofUIlsGCYOU+D5Pq4Vdo1iIXalYrFv/drGFSXDQ9GpcFbSQthkuQ9kM5ZAR87Bfpo0fNitMKfBHCg3TA= Received: by 10.141.170.10 with SMTP id x10mr2870292rvo.1189007124789; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:45:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.159.11 with HTTP; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 08:45:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 10:45:24 -0500 From: "Scott Marlowe" To: "Carlo Stonebanks" Subject: Re: Performance on 8CPU's and 32GB of RAM Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070904230639.GA23731@alvh.no-ip.org> <46DE66CF.9000903@theendofthetunnel.de> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200709/52 X-Sequence-Number: 26597 On 9/5/07, Carlo Stonebanks wrote: > > Right, additionally NTFS is really nothing to use on any serious disc > > array. > > Do you mean that I will not see any big improvement if I upgrade the disk > subsystem because the client is using NTFS (i.e. Windows) No, I think he's referring more to the lack of reliability of NTFS compared to UFS / ZFS / JFS / XFS on unixen. A faster disk subsystem will likely be a real help.