Re: sniff test on some PG 8.4 numbers

> Do these basically sniff right?

Well, the read test seems reasonable.  I'm impressed by the speed of the
write test ... how large is the raid card cache?

And why 8.4?  Can you try 9.2?

> (NOTE: with barriers off, I get a slight increase - 10% - in the
> read-write test, and a larger *decrease* - 15% - with the read-only
> test @ 400. No change @ 100)

Oh, interesting.  Can you reproduce that? I wonder what would cause
read-only to drop without barriers ...

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