Re: understanding postgres issues/bottlenecks

--- On Thu, 8/1/09, Stefano Nichele <stefano.nichele@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Stefano Nichele <stefano.nichele@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [PERFORM] understanding postgres issues/bottlenecks
> To: "Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
> Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
> Date: Thursday, 8 January, 2009, 8:36 AM
> Find !
>
> Dell CERC SATA RAID 2 PCI SATA 6ch
>
> Running lspci -v:
>
> 03:09.0 RAID bus controller: Adaptec AAC-RAID (rev 01)
>         Subsystem: Dell CERC SATA RAID 2 PCI SATA 6ch
> (DellCorsair)
>         Flags: bus master, 66MHz, slow devsel, latency 32,
> IRQ 209
>         Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable)
> [size=64M]
>         Expansion ROM at fe800000 [disabled] [size=32K]
>         Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
>

Hmm, the 64M / 6ch makes it sound like this card

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Controllers/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04&sku=310-5975

Which is a 6ch dell version of

http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/support/raid/sata/AAR-2410SA/

I have one on my smash pile.  The only thing that makes me think otherwise is the 2 in "CERC SATA RAID 2" ...