Niels Kristian Schjødt wrote:
> PS. I'm on postgres 9.2 on a server with 32gb ram, 8 cores and
> two 3T disks in a software raid 1 setup.
In addtion to the excellent advice from Shaun, I would like to
point out a few other things.
One query runs on one core. In a test of a single query, the other
seven cores aren't doing anything. Be sure to pay attention to how
a representative workload is handled.
Unless you have tuned your postgresql.conf settings, you probably
aren't taking very good advantage of that RAM.
For heavy load you need lots of spindles and a good RAID controller
with battery-backed cache configured for write-back.
You will probably benefit from reading this page:
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/SlowQueryQuestions
If you don't already have it, you will probably find Greg Smith's
book on PostgreSQL performance a great investment:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/books/
-Kevin