Re: [PERFORM] partition question for new server setup

2009-04-30 Thread Whit Armstrong
Thanks to everyone who helped me arrive at the config for this server. Here is my first set of benchmarks using the standard pgbench setup. The benchmark numbers seem pretty reasonable to me, but I don't have a good feel for what typical numbers are. Any feedback is appreciated. -Whit the ser

Re: [PERFORM] partition question for new server setup

2009-04-30 Thread Whit Armstrong
Thanks, Scott. > I went with ext3 for the OS -- it makes Ops feel a lot better. ext2 for a > separate xlogs partition, and xfs for the data. > ext2's drawbacks are not relevant for a small partition with just xlog data, > but are a problem for the OS. Can you suggest an appropriate size for the x