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.
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