Re: [PERFORM] Disk tests for a new database server

2005-12-08 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
Hi Steve On 08/12/05, Steve Poe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Rory, > > While I don't have my specific stats with my from my tests with XFS and > bonnie for our company's db server, I do recall vividly that seq. output > did not increase dramatically until I had 8+ discs in a RAID10 > configuratio

Re: [PERFORM] Disk tests for a new database server

2005-12-08 Thread Steve Poe
Rory, While I don't have my specific stats with my from my tests with XFS and bonnie for our company's db server, I do recall vividly that seq. output did not increase dramatically until I had 8+ discs in a RAID10 configuration on an LSI card. I was not using LVM. If I had less than 8 discs, seq.

[PERFORM] Disk tests for a new database server

2005-12-08 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
We are testing disk I/O on our new server (referred to in my recent questions about LVM and XFS on this list) and have run bonnie++ on the xfs partition destined for postgres; results noted below. I haven't been able to find many benchmarks showing desirable IO stats. As far as I can tell the sequ