On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 1:52 AM, Kelvin Quee<kelvinq@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Scott, > > Thanks for the quick reply. > > I have been staring at *top* for a while and it's mostly been 40% in > userspace and 30% in system. Wait is rather low and never ventures > beyond 1%. > > My hardware is a duo core AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+, 1GB RAM and a single > 160 GB SATA II hard disk drive. So I take it you're on a tight budget then? I'm guessing you could put a single quad core cpu and 8 Gigs of ram in place for a reasonable price. I'd highly recommend setting up at least software RAID-1 for increased reliability. > I will go look at Slony now. Might be overkill if you can get by on a single reasonably powerful machine. > Scott, one question though - If my master is constantly changing, > wouldn't the updates from the master to the slave also slow down the > slave? Yes it will, but the overhead for the slave is much less than the master. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
