Ketema wrote: > RAM? The more the merrier right? Understanding shmmax and the pg > config file parameters for shared mem has to be adjusted to use it. > Disks? standard Raid rules right? 1 for safety 5 for best mix of > performance and safety? > Any preference of SCSI over SATA? What about using a High speed (fibre > channel) mass storage device? You might also check out NETAPP NAS arrays. Due to clever use of a big memory buffer and a custom filesystem on a RAID-4 array it has performance comparable to a big RAM disk connected through NFS. Works quite well with OLTP (at least for us). > > Who has built the biggest baddest Pg server out there and what do you > use? > > Thanks! > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org