On Dec 11, 2012, at 5:35 PM, Niels Kristian Schjødt 
<nielskrist...@autouncle.com> wrote:

> 
> Den 11/12/2012 kl. 14.29 skrev Craig Ringer <cr...@2ndquadrant.com>:
> 
>> On 12/11/2012 06:04 PM, Niels Kristian Schjødt wrote:
>>> 
>>> Maybe I should mention, that I never see more than max 5Gb out of my total 
>>> 32Gb being in use on the server… Can I somehow utilize more of it?
>> For an update-mostly workload it probably won't do you tons of good so
>> long as all your indexes fit in RAM. You're clearly severely
>> bottlenecked on disk I/O not RAM.
>>> The SSD's I use a are 240Gb each which will grow too small within a
>>> few months - so - how does moving the whole data dir onto four of
>>> those in a RAID5 array sound? 
>> 
>> Not RAID 5!
>> 
>> Use a RAID10 of four or six SSDs.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Craig Ringer                   http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
>> PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services
>> 
> Hehe got it - did you have a look at the SSD's I am considering building it 
> of? 
> http://ark.intel.com/products/66250/Intel-SSD-520-Series-240GB-2_5in-SATA-6Gbs-25nm-MLC
>  
> Are they suitable do you think?
> 

I am not Craig, but i use them in production in raid10 array now.

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