Himanshu Baweja <himanshubaweja(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> Currently my server has two raid controllers both with
> 5 disks attached::
> On raid1: i have the database (RAID 1/0)
> on raid2: i have the pg_xlog (RAID 0)
>
> is this the optimal configuration or do i need to make
> some changes for better performance....
pg_xlog is basically write-only during normal use, so you might want
to use RAID1 or RAID0+1 rather than RAID5, which has slow write
performance.
-Doug