Re: PostgreSQL strugling during high load

On May 19, 2005, at 2:12 PM, Anjan Dave wrote:

> As far as disk I/O is concerned for flushing the buffers out, I am  
> not ruling out the combination of Dell PERC4 RAID card
>

That'd be my first guess as to I/O speed issues.  I have some dell  
hardware that by all means should be totally blowing out my other  
boxes in speed, but the I/O sucks out the wazoo.  I'm migrating to  
opteron based DB servers with LSI branded cards (not the Dell re- 
branded ones).


Vivek Khera, Ph.D.
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