On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 23:12 +0530, Phoenix Kiula wrote: > Hi. I have a questionf or people who run high traffic websites. > > My question: What's the high end recommendation? Is the following > config of 4 x quadcore Dunnington Intels with 4 disks on RAID 10 be > good enough for the above sites? Can I run a database on this config > of servers for my kind of traffic, or do I need a separate one for PG? > I suppose the traffic will grow large quite quickly so the 300GB may > be low, but that we can add as we go along. > A 4 Disk RAID 10 will give you ~ 100MBs random write per second, max. What type of IO are you using now? (This is also assumes an actual decent RAID controller). Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdrake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company, serving since 1997 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
