On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 11:13:06AM -0400, Ian Westmacott wrote: > On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 00:41, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > > We'll only answer if you do a write-up on your database. :P > > > > Seriously, those are some seriously big numbers. What else is the > > database doing? What hardware is it running on? > > > We run on a dual 3.2GHz P4 with 2GB RAM, but are still > finalizing the storage hardware. We've tried various > flavors of RAID, filesystems and volume management (and > are anxious to try out tablespaces in 8). We've found > fragmentation to be our largest limiting factor. XFS > helps with that, and seems to provide the highest > sustained throughput on raw tables, but its not the end > of the story since fragmentation is still high. What else is the database doing besides the inserts? And if UFS is available for linux you should might try it. -- Jim C. Nasby, Database Consultant decibel@xxxxxxxxxxx Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?"
