Michael,
> >Realistically, you can't do better than about 25MB/s on a
> > single-threaded I/O on current Linux machines,
>
> What on earth gives you that idea? Did you drop a zero?
Nope, LOTS of testing, at OSDL, GreenPlum and Sun. For comparison, A
Big-Name Proprietary Database doesn't get much more than that either.
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--Josh
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco