Re: improving write performance for logging - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Jim C. Nasby
Subject Re: improving write performance for logging
Date
Msg-id 20060106010822.GK43311@pervasive.com
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In response to Re: improving write performance for logging  (Ian Westmacott <ianw@intellivid.com>)
Responses Re: improving write performance for logging
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On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 11:00:38AM -0500, Ian Westmacott wrote:
> The WAL is a 2-spindle (SATA) RAID0 with its own controller (ext3).
> The tables are on a 10-spindle (SCSI) RAID50 with dual U320
> controllers (XFS).  This is overkill for writing and querying the data,
> but we need to constantly ANALYZE and VACUUM in the
> background without interrupting the inserts (the app is 24x7).  The
> databases are 4TB, so these operations can be lengthy.

How come you're using RAID50 instead of just RAID0? Or was WAL being on
RAID0 a typo?
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