Re: Hardware recommendations to scale to silly load

Matt Clark wrote:
> > Just a data point, but on my Dual Xeon 2.4Gig machine with a 10k SCSI
> > drive I can do 4k inserts/second if I turn fsync off. If you have a
> > battery-backed controller, you should be able to do the same. (You will
> > not need to turn fsync off --- fsync will just be fast because of the
> > disk drive RAM).
> >
> > Am I missing something?
>
> I think Ron asked this, but I will too, is that 4k inserts in
> one transaction or 4k transactions each with one insert?
>
> fsync is very much faster (as are all random writes) with the
> write-back cache, but I'd hazard a guess that it's still not
> nearly as fast as turning fsync off altogether. I'll do a test
> perhaps...

Sorry to be replying late. Here is what I found.

fsync on
Inserts all in one transaction 3700 inserts/second
Inserts in separate transactions 870 inserts/second

fsync off
Inserts all in one transaction 3700 inserts/second
Inserts all in one transaction 2500 inserts/second

ECPG test program attached.

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