Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> Speaking of 'disks', what's your exact layout? Do you have a 5 drive
> raid5 for the OS and the database, 1 drive for swap and 1 drive for
> pg_xlog?
On a Sil SATA 3114 controller:
/dev/sda OS + Swap
/dev/sdb /var with pg_xlog
On the 3Ware 9500S-8, 5 disk array:
/dev/sdc with the database (and very safe, my MP3 collection ;-))
As I wrote in one of my posts to Michael, I suspect that the card is not handling the amount of write operations as
wellas I expected. I wonder if anyone else sees the same characteristics with this kind of card.
Groeten,
Joost Kraaijeveld
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