Re: [PERFORM] I have a fusion IO drive available for testing

2009-03-31 Thread Chris Browne
craig_ja...@emolecules.com (Craig James) writes: > Dave Cramer wrote: >> So I tried writing directly to the device, gets around 250MB/s, >> reads at around 500MB/s >> >> The client is using redhat so xfs is not an option. > > I'm using Red Hat and XFS, and have been for years. Why is XFS not an opt

Re: [PERFORM] I have a fusion IO drive available for testing

2009-03-31 Thread Craig James
Dave Cramer wrote: So I tried writing directly to the device, gets around 250MB/s, reads at around 500MB/s The client is using redhat so xfs is not an option. I'm using Red Hat and XFS, and have been for years. Why is XFS not an option with Red Hat? Craig -- Sent via pgsql-performance mail

Re: [PERFORM] I have a fusion IO drive available for testing

2009-03-31 Thread Dave Cramer
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 4:33 PM, David Rees wrote: > On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:30 AM, wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Dave Cramer wrote: > >> So far using dd I am seeing around 264MB/s on ext3, 335MB/s on ext2 > write > >> speed. So the question becomes what is the best filesystem for this > d

Re: [PERFORM] I have a fusion IO drive available for testing

2009-03-27 Thread David Rees
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:30 AM, wrote: > On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Dave Cramer wrote: >> So far using dd I am seeing around 264MB/s on ext3, 335MB/s on ext2 write >> speed. So the question becomes what is the best filesystem for this drive? > > until the current mess with ext3 and fsync gets resolve

Re: [PERFORM] I have a fusion IO drive available for testing

2009-03-27 Thread Jeff
On Mar 27, 2009, at 1:30 PM, da...@lang.hm wrote: for the WAL you definantly don't need the journal, for the data I'm not sure. I believe that postgres does appropriate fsync calls so is safe on a non-journaling filesystem. the fusionIO devices are small enough that a fsync on them does

Re: [PERFORM] I have a fusion IO drive available for testing

2009-03-27 Thread david
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Dave Cramer wrote: So far using dd I am seeing around 264MB/s on ext3, 335MB/s on ext2 write speed. So the question becomes what is the best filesystem for this drive? until the current mess with ext3 and fsync gets resolved, i would say it would probably be a bad choice.

Re: [PERFORM] I have a fusion IO drive available for testing

2009-03-27 Thread Jeff
On Mar 26, 2009, at 8:47 AM, Dave Cramer wrote: So far using dd I am seeing around 264MB/s on ext3, 335MB/s on ext2 write speed. So the question becomes what is the best filesystem for this drive? Anyone want me to run anything on it ? Dave I'd be more interested in the random io numbe

Re: [PERFORM] I have a fusion IO drive available for testing

2009-03-26 Thread Kenny Gorman
-performance@postgresql.org Subject: [PERFORM] I have a fusion IO drive available for testing So far using dd I am seeing around 264MB/s on ext3, 335MB/s on ext2 write speed. So the question becomes what is the best filesystem for this drive? Anyone want me to run anything on it ? Dave

Re: [PERFORM] I have a fusion IO drive available for testing

2009-03-26 Thread Luke Lonergan
XFS - Luke From: pgsql-performance-ow...@postgresql.org To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Sent: Thu Mar 26 05:47:55 2009 Subject: [PERFORM] I have a fusion IO drive available for testing So far using dd I am seeing around 264MB/s on ext3, 335MB/s on ext2

[PERFORM] I have a fusion IO drive available for testing

2009-03-26 Thread Dave Cramer
So far using dd I am seeing around 264MB/s on ext3, 335MB/s on ext2 write speed. So the question becomes what is the best filesystem for this drive? Anyone want me to run anything on it ? Dave