Re: [PERFORM] FUSION-IO io cards

2011-05-02 Thread Justin Pitts
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Mark Steben wrote: > Just wondering if anyone has had any experience with this company and these > cards.  We're currently at postgres 8.3.11. td;dr Ask for a sample and test it out for yourself. I asked for, and received, a sample 80GB unit from Fusion to test

Re: [PERFORM] FUSION-IO io cards

2011-04-29 Thread Joachim Worringen
On 04/29/2011 06:52 PM, gnuo...@rcn.com wrote: TMS RAMSAN is a DRAM device. TMS built DRAM SSDs going back decades, but have recently gotten into flash SSDs as well. The DRAM parts are in an order of magnitude more expensive than others' flash SSDs, gig by gig. Also, about as fast as off cpu s

Re: [PERFORM] FUSION-IO io cards

2011-04-29 Thread Greg Smith
Ben Chobot wrote: Also, while I would say they seem reliable (they have a supercap and succeeded every power-pull test we did) we just recently we've had some issues which /appear/ to be fio driver-related that effectively brought our server down. Fusion thinks its our kernel parameters, but w

Re: [PERFORM] FUSION-IO io cards

2011-04-29 Thread gnuoytr
ginal message >Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 18:04:17 +0200 >From: pgsql-performance-ow...@postgresql.org (on behalf of Joachim Worringen >) >Subject: Re: [PERFORM] FUSION-IO io cards >To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org > >On 04/29/2011 04:54 PM, Ben Chobot wrote: >>

Re: [PERFORM] FUSION-IO io cards

2011-04-29 Thread Joachim Worringen
On 04/29/2011 04:54 PM, Ben Chobot wrote: We have a bunch of their cards, purchased when we were still on 8.1 and were having difficulty with vacuums. (Duh.) They helped out a bunch for that. They're fast, no question about it. Each FusionIO device (they have cards with multiple devices) can do ~

Re: [PERFORM] FUSION-IO io cards

2011-04-29 Thread Tyler Mills
behalf of Ben Chobot [be...@silentmedia.com] Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 9:54 AM To: Mark Steben Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [PERFORM] FUSION-IO io cards On Apr 29, 2011, at 7:24 AM, Mark Steben wrote: Hi, Had a recent conversation with a tech from this company called

Re: [PERFORM] FUSION-IO io cards

2011-04-29 Thread Ben Chobot
On Apr 29, 2011, at 7:24 AM, Mark Steben wrote: > Hi, > Had a recent conversation with a tech from this company called FUSION-IO. > They sell > io cards designed to replace conventional disks. The cards can be up to 3 > TB in size and apparently > are installed in closer proximity to the CPU

Re: [PERFORM] FUSION-IO io cards

2011-04-29 Thread gnuoytr
sage >Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 10:24:48 -0400 >From: pgsql-performance-ow...@postgresql.org (on behalf of Mark Steben >) >Subject: [PERFORM] FUSION-IO io cards >To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org > > Hi, > Had a recent conversation with a tech from this > co

Re: [PERFORM] FUSION-IO io cards

2011-04-29 Thread Ivan Voras
On 29/04/2011 16:24, Mark Steben wrote: Hi, Had a recent conversation with a tech from this company called FUSION-IO. They sell io cards designed to replace conventional disks. The cards can be up to 3 TB in size and apparently are installed in closer proximity to the CPU than the disks are.

Re: [PERFORM] FUSION-IO io cards

2011-04-29 Thread Stephen Cook
On 4/29/2011 10:24 AM, Mark Steben wrote: Hi, Had a recent conversation with a tech from this company called FUSION-IO. They sell io cards designed to replace conventional disks. The cards can be up to 3 TB in size and apparently are installed in closer proximity to the CPU than the disks are.

[PERFORM] FUSION-IO io cards

2011-04-29 Thread Mark Steben
Hi, Had a recent conversation with a tech from this company called FUSION-IO. They sell io cards designed to replace conventional disks. The cards can be up to 3 TB in size and apparently are installed in closer proximity to the CPU than the disks are. They claim performance boosts several times