Have you been certain to disable write caching on the drives? If not I
bet that's what you're seeing (which also means you're begging for
database corruption).
--
Jim C. Nasby, Database Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Danny Howard wrote:
> I don't have the time and hardware to do very scientific tests, but I
> have been able to run a series of benchmarks using bonnie++ on some
> systems I have available to me. The ATA-based gmirror performs
> extremely well, compared to a few Adaptec RAIDs
On April 8, 2005 04:41 pm, Danny Howard wrote:
> Hello,
>
> BACKGROUND
>
> I need to purchase a new system for our developers, for use as a
> Postgres database test server. Having a RAID, probably RAID1, is
> desirable for performance and reliability. I have recently set up a
> system with a gmir
Hello,
BACKGROUND
I need to purchase a new system for our developers, for use as a
Postgres database test server. Having a RAID, probably RAID1, is
desirable for performance and reliability. I have recently set up a
system with a gmirror-based software RAID1 on a pair of 250GB ATA
drives. I woul
