On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Greg Smith <gsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > XFS has good performance, but I can't get over how many system failure > corruption reports I hear about it. In any case, there's no reason this > system shouldn't perform fine on ext3. For simple testing you can take the file system out of the equation by just using dd to / from the raw partition. I have a feeling this HP RAID controller is just a low end piece o crap is the problem. I seem to remember references to the P800 series controller being quite a bit better than this one. But that was a while back. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance