On 09/07/10 02:31, Ryan Wexler wrote: > Thanks a lot for all the comments. The fact that both my windows box > and the old linux box both show a massive performance improvement over > the new linux box seems to point to hardware to me. I am not sure how > to test the fsync issue, but i don't see how that could be it. > > The raid card the server has in it is: > 3Ware 4 Port 9650SE-4LPML RAID Card > > Looking it up, it seems to indicate that it has BBU > > The only other difference between the boxes is the postgresql > version. The new one has 8.4-2 from the yum install instructions on > the site: > http://yum.pgrpms.org/reporpms/repoview/pgdg-centos.html > > Any more thoughts? Really dumb idea, you don't happen to have the build of the RPM's that had debug enabled do you? That resulted in significant performance problem?
Regards Russell