From: Bob Henkel <luckyratfoot@gmail.com>
To: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: getting count for a specific querry
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 15:35:32 -0500
Message-ID: <762e5c05040813354436bd27@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cb3b9f9319ae75a9f8eb756ff38e85e8@khera.org>
References: <003b01c53c70$6ff184b0$797ba8c0@jfradkin>
<cb3b9f9319ae75a9f8eb756ff38e85e8@khera.org>
On Apr 8, 2005 3:23 PM, Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Apr 8, 2005, at 3:23 PM, Joel Fradkin wrote:
>
> > I set up the data on 4 10k scsi drives in a powervault and my wal on 2
> > 15k
> > drives. I am using links to those from the install directory. It
> > starts and
> > stops ok this way, but maybe it should be different.
> >
>
> Your problem might just be the choice of using a Dell RAID controller.
> I have a 1 year old box connected to a 14 disk powervault (PowerEdge
> 2650) and it is dog slow compared to a dual opteron with 8 disks that
> is replacing it. It is all I/O for me, and the dell's just are not
> known for speedy I/O.
>
> Vivek Khera, Ph.D.
> +1-301-869-4449 x806
>
>
> But that is relative I would think. Is the Dell RAID much faster than my
desktop SATA drive with no RAID? I'm by any means as knowledgeable about I/O
setup as many of you are but my 2 cents wonders if the Dell RAID is really
that much slower than a competitively priced/speced alternative? Would
Joel's problems just fade away if he wasn't using a Dell RAID?
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