On 1/23/09, Ibrahim Harrani <ibrahim(dot)harrani(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi Craig,
>
> Here is the result. It seems that disk write is terrible!.
>
> root(at)myserver /usr]# time (dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=8192
> count=1000000; sync)
Note, while sequential write speeds are a good indication of general
raid crappyness, they are not the main driver of your low pgbench
results (buy they may be involved with poor insert performance)
That is coming from your seek performance, which is also lousy at ~130
according to bonnie.
merlin