On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 11:46 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > The above system is incredibly fast under almost all conditions, except > when writing very large files (say, 100s of MB, or even GB). When .... > Any other suggestions or reports of similar experiences? Sorry, no solution, but a me too post. I have similar experience with a 2-way Opteron, 3Ware9500 SATA RAID5 with 5 disks: short updateing transactions with PostgreSQL fly, long updates start fast but after a few seconds everthing locks up, and the update lasts forever.
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