Re: good pc but bad performance,why?

From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <mm-mailinglist(at)madness(dot)at>
To: huang yaqin <hyq(at)gthome(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: good pc but bad performance,why?
Date: 2004-04-06 16:22:49
Message-ID: 4072D959.5090905@madness.at
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huang yaqin wrote:
> hello,
>
> I have some question when I use postgresql 7.4.1 on redhat adv server 2.1 .
> I use IBM335 as server, it has 4 cpus, 1G RAM. but I got very bad performance.

This is most likely a dual processor Xeon machine with HT, because the
x335 is limited to two physical cpus.

> I can only do about 50 inserts per sencond. Event worse than my pc(PIII 800,256M RAM), can anyone give me some advice?

any chance you are using the onboard MPT-Fusion "Raid"controller with a
RAID1 - we have seen absolutely horrible performance from these
controllers here.
Using them as a normal SCSI-Controller with Softwareraid on top fixed
this for us ...

stefan

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