Re: [PERFORM] Hardware performance

2003-07-16 Thread Roman Fail
wn at all. Although they DO go down despite redundancy...I just had a SCSI backplane go out in a Dell 6600 that has every bit of redundancy you can order. While uncommon, the backplane is one one of the many single points of failure! Roman Fail POS Portal, Inc. -Original M

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning PostgreSQL

2003-07-21 Thread Roman Fail
> What would you guys think of not using RAID5 in that case, but just a really > fast 15.000 rpm SCSI-320 disk? I'd say you must be able to tolerate losing all the data since your last database backup. Your battery backed cache, rotational speed, and transfer rate aren't going to help at all

Re: [PERFORM] hardware performance and some more

2003-07-24 Thread Roman Fail
ems were solved in the nick of time, but I really wish I had made more time for tuning. Running strong in production for 7 months now with PostgreSQL 7.3, and eagerly awaiting 7.4! Roman Fail POS Portal, Inc. ---(end of broadcast)---