He doesn't have a RAID controller, it's software RAID... Alex Turner netEconomis
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 16:18:00 -0500, Merlin Moncure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex Turner wrote: > > 35 Trans/sec is pretty slow, particularly if they are only one row at > > a time. I typicaly get 200-400/sec on our DB server on a bad day. Up > > to 1100 on a fresh database. > > Well, don't rule out that his raid controller is not caching his writes. > His WAL sync method may be overriding his raid cache policy and flushing > his writes to disk, always. Win32 has the same problem, and before > Magnus's O_DIRECT patch, there was no way to easily work around it > without turning fsync off. I'd suggest playing with different WAL sync > methods before trying anything else. > > Merli > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq