| From: | "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Scott Ribe" <scott_ribe(at)killerbytes(dot)com>, "Alan Hodgson" <ahodgson(at)simkin(dot)ca>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: In the belly of the beast (MySQLCon) |
| Date: | 2008-04-20 18:55:02 |
| Message-ID: | dcc563d10804201155y39a1a388i59ff34b9a668c86@mail.gmail.com |
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On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:32:58 -0600
> "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > Exactly. There are several things you can do on the replica that you
> > wouldn't do on the master for better performance. Really big numbers
> > of WAL segments, no background writer, fsync off as mentioned, WAL on
> > a RAID-0 with 10 disks, no battery back on a caching RAID controller,
> > and so on.
>
> You are still limited by how fast you can pull data from the master
> over the network to the slave. Which when dealing with 500GB+ is a
> significant limitation.
Agreed. Hence the part of my post about using bonded gigabit ethernet
to boost that speed. Admitted, there's only so much you can do there.
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