Mark Wong wrote: > On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 10:04 PM, <david@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Mark Wong wrote: > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> We've thrown together some results from simple i/o tests on Linux > >> comparing various file systems, hardware and software raid with a > >> little bit of volume management: > >> > >> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/HP_ProLiant_DL380_G5_Tuning_Guide Mark, very useful analysis. I am curious why you didn't test 'data=writeback' on ext3; 'data=writeback' is the recommended mount method for that file system, though I see that is not mentioned in our official documentation. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +