On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Cesar Martin <cmartinp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Finally the problem was BIOS configuration. DBPM had was set to "Active >>> Power Controller" I changed this to "Max >>> Performance". http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/power-cooling/w/wiki/best-practices-in-power-management.aspx >>> Now wirite speed are 550MB/s and read 1,1GB/s. >> >> Why in the world would a server be delivered to a customer with such a >> setting turned on? ugh. > > likely informal pressure to reduce power consumption. anyways, this > verifies my suspicion that it was a dell problem. in my dealings with > them, you truly have to threaten to send the server back then the > solution magically appears. don't spend time and money playing their > 'qualified environment' game -- it never works...just tell them to > shove it. > > there are a number of second tier vendors that give good value and > allow you to to things like install your own disk drives without > getting your support terminated. of course, you lose the 'enterprise > support', to which I give a value of approximately zero. Dell's support never even came close to what I used to get from Aberdeen. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
