Thanks Curt - yes, I have the log files on a different drive all together.
I was thinking more along the lines of OS block size (4 KB) vs. Postgres block
size (8 KB by default) vs. RAID block size (32 KB). Is there anything I
should change?
I would like to experiment but a 20 GB DB takes some time to backup and
restore, so I'd like to tap into other's experiences.
Best regards,
Chris
On Sun August 11 2002 23:30, you wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Chris Ruprecht wrote:
> > I have set up a RAID-5 (soft RAID) arrray on my Linux machine,
> > consisting of 5 18 GB UltraSCSI-2 (80 MB/sec) drives. Everythinng is
> > working but I would like to know, where I can tweak this for optimum
> > performance.
>
> If you do a lot of inserts, move the log file ($PGDATA/pg_xlog)
> off the RAID-5 and on to a separate RAID-1 (mirrored) pair. This will
> separate the buffered random writes to the data files and the unbuffered,
> sequential writes to the log.
>
> cjs