On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 17:59, Orhan Aglagul wrote: > Hi Everybody, > > I was trying to see how many inserts per seconds my application could > handle on various machines. > > Here is the data: > > > > Time for 10000 inserts > > Fsync=on > > Fsync=off > > Pentium M 1.7 > > ~17 sec > > ~6 sec > > Pentium 4 2.4 > > ~13 sec > > ~11 sec > > Dual Xeon > > ~65 sec > > ~1.9 sec > > > In addition to my previous post, if you see that big a change between fsync on and off, you likely have a drive subsystem that is actually reporting fsync properly. The other two machines are lying. Or they have a battery backed caching raid controller