Re: FW:

From: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: <david(at)lang(dot)hm>
Cc: "Orhan Aglagul" <oaglagul(at)cittio(dot)com>, <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: FW:
Date: 2007-05-09 11:36:19
Message-ID: 87d51ai5zg.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com
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<david(at)lang(dot)hm> writes:

> with a standard 7200 rpm drive ~150 transactions/sec sounds about right
>
> to really speed things up you want to get a disk controller with a battery
> backed cache so that the writes don't need to hit the disk to be safe.

Note that this is only if you're counting transactions/sec in a single
session. You can get much more if you have many sessions since they can all
commit together in a single disk i/o.

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Gregory Stark
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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