On 3/5/07, Guido Neitzer <lists@event-s.net> wrote:
> On 01.03.2007, at 13:40, Alex Deucher wrote:
>
> > I read several places that the SAN might be to blame, but
> > testing with bonnie and dd indicates that the SAN is actually almost
> > twice as fast as the scsi discs in the old sun server. I've tried
> > adjusting just about every option in the postgres config file, but
> > performance remains the same. Any ideas?
>
> As mentioned last week:
>
> Did you actually try to use the local drives for speed testing? It
> might be that the SAN introduces latency especially for random access
> you don't see on local drives.
Yes, I started setting that up this afternoon. I'm going to test that
tomorrow and post the results.
Alex
>
> cug
>