Re: more 10K disks or less 15K disks

From: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Anj Adu <fotographs(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: more 10K disks or less 15K disks
Date: 2010-04-29 04:51:22
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On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Anj Adu <fotographs(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Thanks Greg
>
> We do not archive the WALs. We use application-level replication to
> achieve redundancy. WAL archiving was difficult to support with the
> earlier hardware we had ( 6x300G 10K disks Dell 2850) given the
> volumes we were dealing with. The RAID card should be from the same
> manufacturer (LSI in Dell's case).

I don't think Greg was talking of WAL archiving, but more of where are
the WAL files and how much IO throughput the WAL needs compared to the
regular old /data/base store.

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