>>>>> "SC" == Sean Chittenden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I need to step in and do 2 things: SC> Thanks for posting that. Let me know if you have any questions while SC> doing your testing. I've found that using 16K blocks on FreeBSD SC> results in about an 8% speedup in writes to the database, fwiw. ok.. ignore my prior request about how to set that... i missed you had included a patch. Any recommendations on newfs parameters for an overly large file system used solely for Postgres? Over 100Gb (with raid 10) or over 200Gb (with raid 5)? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rockville, MD +1-240-453-8497 AIM: vivekkhera Y!: vivek_khera http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org