On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 16:04, Jonathan Blitz wrote: > > > > Most laptop drives are only 5,400 RPM which would make a transaction like > > you are describing likely take a while. > > Not sure what my one is but it is new(ish). > > > > > No desktop at home you could try it on? > > I think the problem with the laptop is likely it's drive. > > I suppose I could do but I need to install PostgreSQL there and then copy > over the database. Keep in mind, most, if not all IDE drives lie about fsync, so the speed of the drive is a limit only if you're actually writing a lot of data. If you're doing a lot of little transactions, the drive should be lying and holding the data in cache on board, so the speed should be OK.
