Re: strange performance regression between 7.4 and 8.1

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Jeff Frost <jeff(at)frostconsultingllc(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: strange performance regression between 7.4 and 8.1
Date: 2007-03-02 02:21:36
Message-ID: 45E78A30.1030408@commandprompt.com
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Alex Deucher wrote:
> On 3/1/07, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>> \
>> >> Is the SAN being shared between the database servers and other
>> >> servers? Maybe
>> >> it was just random timing that gave you the poor write performance on
>> >> the old
>> >> server which might be also yielding occassional poor performance on
>> >> the new
>> >> one.
>> >>
>> >
>> > The direct attached scsi discs on the old database server we getting
>> > 45MBps not the SAN. The SAN got 62/145Mbps, which is not as bad.
>>
>> How many spindles you got in that SAN?
>
> 105 IIRC.

You have 105 spindles are you are only get 62megs on writes? That seems
about half what you should be getting. (at least).

Joshua D. Drake

>
> Alex
>

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