I felt pretty good about my server until I read this. On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 00:24 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > On 03/13/12 8:41 PM, Carson Gross wrote: > > Does anyone have a reasonable guess as to the inserts per second > > postgres is capable of these days on middle-of-the-road hardware? Any > > order of magnitude would be fine: 10, 100, 1000, 10,000. > > my dedicated database server in my lab, which is a 2U dual Xeon X5660 > box with 12 cores at 2.8ghz, 48GB ram, and 20 15000rpm SAS drives in a > RAID10 with a 1GB flash-cached raid card, can pretty easily sustain 6000 > or more writes/second given enough threads doing the work, although > indexes, and/or large rows would slow that down. a single > connection/thread will not get that much throughput. > > thats my definition of a middle of the road database server. I have no > idea what yours is. > > > -- > john r pierce N 37, W 122 > santa cruz ca mid-left coast > > -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
