I've changed the setting a bit: (1) Replaced 7.200 disk by a 10.000 one, still sata though. (2) Inserting rows only 10x times (instead of 100x times) but 80mb each, so having the same amount of 800mb in total. (3) Changed the WAL path to the system disk (by the great 'junction' trick mentioned in the other posting), so actually splitting the write access to the "system" disk and the fast "data" disk. And here is the frustrating result: 1. None of the 4 CPUs was ever more busy than 30% (never less idle than 70%), 2. while both disks kept being far below the average write performance: the "data" disk had 18 peaks of approx. 40 mb but in total the average thoughput was 16-18 mb/s. BTW: * Disabling noatime and similar for ntfs did not change things much (thanks though!). * A short cross check copying 800mb random data file from "system" to "data" disk showed a performance of constantly 75 mb/s. So, I have no idea what remains as the bottleneck. Felix
Try this : CREATE TABLE test AS SELECT * FROM yourtable; This will test write speed, and TOAST compression speed. Then try this: CREATE TABLE test (LIKE yourtable); COMMIT; INSERT INTO test SELECT * FROM yourtable; This does the same thing but also writes WAL. I wonder what results you'll get. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
