Re: Re: Fast Inserts and Hardware Questions

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<Pine.LNX.4.30.0103141957490.14894-100000@net-srv-0001.bvrd.com>, "Alex
Howansky" <alex@wankwood.com> wrote:

[Interesting stats]

> Wow, does WAL make so much of a difference as to make my
> two-generations-old, built-from-spare-parts scrap box faster than my
> latest and greatest production server? Yikes!

What RAID level are you running?  RAID-5 isn't always very
fast on writes.  That and WAL might be what's up.

Have you tried 7.1b5 on the big box?

Gordon.
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It doesn't get any easier, you just go faster.
   -- Greg LeMond