Am 21.05.2007 um 15:01 schrieb Jim C. Nasby:
> I'd be willing to bet money that the drive is lying about commits/
> fsync.
> Each transaction committed essentially requires one revolution of the
> drive with pg_xlog on it, so a 15kRPM drive limits you to 250TPS.
Yes, that right, but if a lot of the transactions are selects, there
is no entry in the x_log for them and most of the stuff can come from
the cache - read from memory which is blazing fast compared to any
disk ... And this was a pg_bench test - I don't know what the
benchmark really does but if I remember correctly it is mostly reading.
cug