Pierre Frédéric Caillaud: > > 4 Core CPU 3 Ghz, WinXP, 1 TB SATA disk. > > Big CPU and slow disk... > > You should add another disk just for the WAL -- disks are pretty cheap > these days. > Writing the WAL on a second disk is the first thing to do on a > configuration like yours, if you are limited by writes. > It also reduces the fsync lag a lot since the disk is only doing WAL. Good idea -- where can I set the path to WAL? Felix -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
