Alexandre,
Since you want the fastest speed I would do the 2 data
disks in RAID 0 (striping) not RAID 1 (mirroring).
If you would care about not loosing any transactions
you would keep all 3 disks in RAID 5.
Don't know the answer to the Hyperthreading question.
Why don't you run a test to find
Back in the day, we got good performance from similar sized tables
using VMS, a small VAX with only 256MB RAM and narrow SCSI 1GB disks.
The RDBMS was DEC's own Rdb/VMS. A "small" mainframe (6 MIPS, 8MB
RAM) also gave good performance.
So, this old curmudgeon asks, why such beefy h/w for such sm
Tom Lane wrote:
force Postgres into using Indexes when available.So I changed the
following two lines in the .conf file:
enable_seqscan = false
enable_nestloop = false
>This was recommended in the documentation,
Where would you say that setting those off in the config file is
"recomm
Martin Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> As a side note, would you recommend disabling
> fsync for added performance?
Only if you are willing to sacrifice crash-safety in the name of speed.
regards, tom lane
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Hi all,
I’m in the process of initiating a movement in our
company to move towards open source software use. As part of this movement I
will be recommending PostgreSQL as an alternative to
the currently used MSSQL. I’m going with PostgreSQL
over MySQL because of the much more complete f
