On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 09:31:32AM -0700, Ryan Wexler wrote: > Thanks a lot for all the comments. The fact that both my windows box and > the old linux box both show a massive performance improvement over the new > linux box seems to point to hardware to me. I am not sure how to test the > fsync issue, but i don't see how that could be it. > > The raid card the server has in it is: > 3Ware 4 Port 9650SE-4LPML RAID Card > > Looking it up, it seems to indicate that it has BBU By "looking it up", I assume you mean running tw_cli and looking at the output to make sure the bbu is enabled and the cache is turned on for the raid array u0 or u1 ...? -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance