Re: Tips & Tricks for validating hardware/os

From: Vivek Khera <vivek(at)khera(dot)org>
To: PostgreSQL Performance <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Tips & Tricks for validating hardware/os
Date: 2007-05-23 15:51:49
Message-ID: 150A031D-7E4C-47EA-BDE4-68F678AEA36C@khera.org
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On May 23, 2007, at 2:32 AM, Andreas Kostyrka wrote:

> You forgot pulling some RAID drives at random times to see how the
> hardware deals with the fact. And how it deals with the rebuild
> afterwards. (Many RAID solutions leave you with worst of both
> worlds, taking longer to rebuild than a restore from backup would
> take, while at the same ime providing a disc IO performance that is
> SO bad that the server becomes useless during the rebuild)

*cough* adaptec *cough* :-(

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