[GENERAL] Disk I/O Question

2015-11-10 Thread teeeebro
Hello - I am new to this forum and know nothing about PostgreSQL. I have managed Microsoft SQL for 15 years (I know ) We have a third party application that uses PostgreSQL for the database engine. Performance writing to our Dell Compellent SAN is lacking. What I've read about PostgreSQL is

Re: [GENERAL] Disk I/O Question

2015-11-10 Thread teeeebro
The third party application is locked down and we do not have root access to the server. We have reached out to them for the version number of PostgreSQL. The application server is a virtual machine (RedHat 6) running on VMware 5.5. This is a stand-alone host server running only the third party

Re: [GENERAL] Disk I/O Question

2015-11-10 Thread teeeebro
Fair question Let me elaborate. The command was simply to test the speed at which data can be written to disk. Postgre comes into play with the monitoring application itself. Information pertaining to the 5000+ devices being monitored is sent to the monitoring application and written to the Po

Re: [GENERAL] Disk I/O Question

2015-11-10 Thread teeeebro
The application is called Nable and is owned by Solarwinds http://www.n-able.com -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.nabble.com/Disk-I-O-Question-tp5873364p5873428.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing l