Jeff,
Some off topic questions:
Is it possible to boot the OS from the ioDrive? If so, is the difference in
boot up time noticeable?
Also, how does ioDrive impact compilation time for a moderately large code
base? What about application startup times?
Cheers,
Behrang
Jeffrey Baker wrote:
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On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Jeffrey Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Jeffrey W. Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>> Strangely the RAID controller behaves badly on the TPC-B workl
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Jeffrey W. Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Strangely the RAID controller behaves badly on the TPC-B workload. It
>> is faster than disk, but not by a lot, and it's much slower than th
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Jeffrey W. Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Strangely the RAID controller behaves badly on the TPC-B workload. It
> is faster than disk, but not by a lot, and it's much slower than the
> other flash configurations. The read/write benchmark did not vary when
> c
For background, please read the thread "Fusion-io ioDrive", archived at
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2008-07/msg00010.php
To recap, I tested an ioDrive versus a 6-disk RAID with pgbench on an
ordinary PC. I now also have a 32GB Samsung SATA SSD, and I have tested
it in the sa
