On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Greg Smith <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Basically, you have a couple of standard issues here: > > 1) You're using RAID-5, which is not known for good write performance. Are > you sure the disk array performs well on writes? And if you didn't > benchmark it, you can't be sure. This can be doubly bad if he's now moved to a set of disks that are properly obeying fsync but was on disks that were lying about it before. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general