On Feb 13, 2008 5:02 AM, Tore Halset <halset@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello. > > I think I started that discussion. We ended up buying a Dell 2900 with > PERC 6/i and 10 * 145GB SAS 3,5" 15KRpm discs. 6 of the SAS discs are > in a raid 10 for the database, 2 in a mirror for the wal and the last > 2 in a mirror for the OS. We get 350MB/s writing and 380MB/s reading > to/from the raid 10 area using dd. The OS is Ubuntu and the filesystem > for the raid 10 is ext3. Those are decent numbers. Can you do a bonnie++ run and post the results (specifically interested in seeks)? merlin ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly