On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 01:12:27AM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
>Another frequent suggestion is to put the xlog on a separate device. I
>tried this, and, for a given number of disks, it appears to be
>counter-productive. A RAID5 of 5 disks holding both logs and data is
>about 15% faster than a RAID5 of 3 disks with the data, and a mirror of
>two disks holding the xlog.
Try simply a seperate partition on the same device with a different
filesystem (ext2).
Mike Stone