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<Pine(dot)LNX(dot)4(dot)30(dot)0103141957490(dot)14894-100000(at)net-srv-0001(dot)bvrd(dot)com>, "Alex
Howansky" <alex(at)wankwood(dot)com> wrote:
[Interesting stats]
> Wow, does WAL make so much of a difference as to make my
> two-generations-old, built-from-spare-parts scrap box faster than my
> latest and greatest production server? Yikes!
What RAID level are you running? RAID-5 isn't always very
fast on writes. That and WAL might be what's up.
Have you tried 7.1b5 on the big box?
Gordon.
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It doesn't get any easier, you just go faster.
-- Greg LeMond