Re: [GENERAL] High volume inserts - more disks or more CPUs?

2004-12-13 Thread Lincoln Yeoh
At 12:16 AM 12/13/2004 -0600, Guy Rouillier wrote: (3) If we go with more disks, should we attempt to split tables and indexes onto different drives (i.e., tablespaces), or just put all the disks in hardware RAID5 and use a single tablespace? Fast inserts = fast writes. RAID5 = slower writes. You m

Re: [GENERAL] High volume inserts - more disks or more CPUs?

2004-12-13 Thread Richard Huxton
Guy Rouillier wrote: Seeking advice on system configuration (and I have read the techdocs.) Probably worth reading the archives for the "performance" list. We are converting a data collection system from Oracle to PostgreSQL 8.0. We are currently getting about 64 million rows per month; data is pu

Re: [GENERAL] High volume inserts - more disks or more CPUs?

2004-12-13 Thread Markus Wollny
Hi! > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von > Guy Rouillier > Gesendet: Montag, 13. Dezember 2004 07:17 > An: PostgreSQL General > Betreff: [GENERAL] High volume inserts - more disks or more CPUs? > (1

[GENERAL] High volume inserts - more disks or more CPUs?

2004-12-12 Thread Guy Rouillier
Seeking advice on system configuration (and I have read the techdocs.) We are converting a data collection system from Oracle to PostgreSQL 8.0. We are currently getting about 64 million rows per month; data is put into a new table each month. The number of simultaneous connections is very small: