On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:28:07 +0100, fka...@googlemail.com <fka...@googlemail.com> wrote:

Pierre Frédéric Caillaud:

> 4 Core CPU 3 Ghz, WinXP, 1 TB SATA disk.

        Big CPU and slow disk...

        You should add another disk just for the WAL -- disks are pretty cheap
these days.
        Writing the WAL on a second disk is the first thing to do on a
configuration like yours, if you are limited by writes.
        It also reduces the fsync lag a lot since the disk is only doing WAL.

Good idea -- where can I set the path to WAL?

        At install, or use a symlink (they exist on windows too !...)

        http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1901405/postgresql-wal-on-windows

I've no idea of the other needed NTFS tweaks, like if there is a noatime/nodiratime ?...



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