Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 02:40:20 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@sigpipe.cz> To: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which SCHED_ for DB server Message-ID: <20050902004020.GB6640@isis.sigpipe.cz> In-Reply-To: <43179DAC.2010102@meijome.net> References: <4316A5BC.1000405@meijome.net> <20050901075851.GA19900@intserv.int1.b.intern> <4316B906.50002@meijome.net> <20050901135131.GB3805@isis.sigpipe.cz> <43179DAC.2010102@meijome.net>
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# freebsd@meijome.net / 2005-09-02 10:32:44 +1000:
> Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> ># freebsd@meijome.net / 2005-09-01 18:17:10 +1000:
> >
> >>Holger Kipp wrote:
> >>
> >>>Hello,
> >>>
> >>
> >>>>4 x SATA 150 drives, 90% of it RAID5 with gvinum.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>I do not know your applications, but if writing to disk is an issue:
> >>>
> >>>- WAL-files should be written to physically separated disks.
> >>
> >>sorry, what do you mean by WAL-files
> >
> >
> > Looks like you might greatly benefit from getting acquainted with
> > PostgreSQL first; you won't be able to tune anything if you don't
> > know how the software works.
> >
>
> touche. I've been reading from the documentation from their site and I
> haven't seen anything on the WAL files...google helped a lot ;)
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/wal.html
> I think i'll go with 2 separate raid 1 instances given this
> information (and cross the bridge of more storage needed when I get to
> it).
That sounds reasonable. Good luck with PostgreSQL!
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