12 disks raid setup

From: Franck Routier <franck(dot)routier(at)axege(dot)com>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: 12 disks raid setup
Date: 2008-02-29 11:51:34
Message-ID: 1204285894.11773.33.camel@franck-gusty
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Hi,

I am in the process of setting up a postgresql server with 12 SAS disks.

I am considering two options:

1) set up a 12 disks raid 10 array to get maximum raw performance from
the system and put everything on it (it the whole pg cluster, including
WAL, and every tablespcace)

2) set up 3 raid 10 arrays of 4 disks, and dispatch my data on these
disks via tablespaces :

data1 = pg cluster + references data (dimensions) tablespace
data2 = fact data tablespace
data3 = indices tablespace

Typical workload is either massive insert/update via ETL or complex
queries on big (10 millions tuples) tables with several joins (including
Mondrian ROLAP).

Does anyone have an opinion of what could give best results ?

Thanks,
Franck

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