Re: Upgrade questions

Heh. OK, so I'll plan on about 100 writes per second... *gulp*

Thanks a bunch for the info guys.

Cheers,
Carson

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Bret Stern <
bret_stern(at)machinemanagement(dot)com> wrote:

> I felt pretty good about my server until I read this.
> On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 00:24 -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
> > On 03/13/12 8:41 PM, Carson Gross wrote:
> > > Does anyone have a reasonable guess as to the inserts per second
> > > postgres is capable of these days on middle-of-the-road hardware? Any
> > > order of magnitude would be fine: 10, 100, 1000, 10,000.
> >
> > my dedicated database server in my lab, which is a 2U dual Xeon X5660
> > box with 12 cores at 2.8ghz, 48GB ram, and 20 15000rpm SAS drives in a
> > RAID10 with a 1GB flash-cached raid card, can pretty easily sustain 6000
> > or more writes/second given enough threads doing the work, although
> > indexes, and/or large rows would slow that down. a single
> > connection/thread will not get that much throughput.
> >
> > thats my definition of a middle of the road database server. I have no
> > idea what yours is.
> >
> >
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> >
> >
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