From: | Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com> |
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To: | Henrik <henke(at)mac(dot)se> |
Cc: | pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Filesystem setup on new system |
Date: | 2008-08-08 22:42:05 |
Message-ID: | Pine.GSO.4.64.0808071213030.11658@westnet.com |
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On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Henrik wrote:
> My first idea was to have one partition on the RAID 10 using ext3 with
> data=writeback, noatime as mount options.
>
> But I wonder if I should have 2 partitions on the RAID 10 one for the PGDATA
> dir using ext3 and one partition for XLOGS using ext2.
Really depends on your write volume. The write cache on your controller
will keep having a separate xlog disk from being as important as it is
without one. If your write volume is really high though, it may still be
a bottleneck, and you may discover your app runs better with a dedicated
ext2 xlog disk instead.
The simple version is:
WAL write volume extremely high->dedicated xlog can be better
WAL volume low->more disks for the database array better even if that
mixes the WAL on there as well
If you want a true answer for which is better, you have to measure your
application running on this hardware.
> 6 SAS 15K drives in RAID 10 on one of the SAN controllers for database
With only 6 disks available, in general you won't be able to reach the WAL
as a bottleneck before being limited by seeks on the remaining 4 database
disks, so you might as well group all 6 together. It's possible your
particular application might prefer it the other way though, if you're
doing a while lot of small writes for example. I've seen a separate WAL
handle low-level benchmarks better, but on more real-world loads it's
harder to run into that situation.
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* Greg Smith gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD
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