On Tuesday 19 February 2008 17:53:45 Greg Smith wrote: > On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Douglas J Hunley wrote: > > The db resides on a HP Modular Storage Array 500 G2. 4x72.8Gb 15k rpm > > disks. 1 raid 6 logical volume. Compaq Smart Array 6404 controller > > You might consider doing some simple disk tests on the array just to prove > it's working well. Reports here suggest the HP/Compaq arrays have been > somewhat inconsistant in performance, and it would be helpful to know if > you've got a good or a bad setup. Some hints here are at > http://www.westnet.com/~gsmith/content/postgresql/pg-disktesting.htm excellent! i'll look into doing this. thx! -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 http://doug.hunley.homeip.net Illiterate? Write for help! ---------------------------(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
