Re: [GENERAL] Synchronous replication + Fusion-io = waste of money OR significant performance boost? (compared to normal SATA-based SSD-disks)?

2012-03-08 Thread Ondrej Ivanič
Hi, On 9 March 2012 02:23, dennis jenkins wrote: > I've also looked at the Fusion-IO products.  They are not standard > flash drives.  They don't appear as SATA devices.  They contains an > FPGA that maps the flash directly to the PCI bus.  The kernel-mode > drivers blits data to/from them via DM

Re: [GENERAL] Synchronous replication + Fusion-io = waste of money OR significant performance boost? (compared to normal SATA-based SSD-disks)?

2012-03-08 Thread dennis jenkins
I've also looked at the Fusion-IO products. They are not standard flash drives. They don't appear as SATA devices. They contains an FPGA that maps the flash directly to the PCI bus. The kernel-mode drivers blits data to/from them via DMA, not a SATA or SAS drive (that would limit transfer rates

Re: [GENERAL] Synchronous replication + Fusion-io = waste of money OR significant performance boost? (compared to normal SATA-based SSD-disks)?

2012-03-08 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:54 AM, Joel Jacobson wrote: > My company is in the process of migrating to a new pair of servers, running > 9.1. > > The database performance monetary transactions, we require > synchronous_commit on for all transactions. > > Fusion-io is being considered, but will it giv

[GENERAL] Synchronous replication + Fusion-io = waste of money OR significant performance boost? (compared to normal SATA-based SSD-disks)?

2012-03-07 Thread Joel Jacobson
My company is in the process of migrating to a new pair of servers, running 9.1. The database performance monetary transactions, we require synchronous_commit on for all transactions. Fusion-io is being considered, but will it give any significant performance gain compared to normal SATA-based SS