Re: Hardware recommendations to scale to silly load

On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 21:44, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> matt wrote:
> > > Are you *sure* about that???? 3K updates/inserts per second xlates
> > > to 10,800,000 per hour. That, my friend, is a WHOLE HECK OF A LOT!
> >
> > Yup, I know!
>
> 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?

Is that
FOR I BETWEEN 1 AND 4000
BEGIN
INSERT
COMMIT
or
BEGIN
INSERT
<snip 3998 inserts>
INSERT
COMMIT;
or
COPY

I get the impression that Matt will need to do 25,000 of these per
hour:
SELECT <blah>
IF <some circumstance that happens about 1/8th of the time>
BEGIN
INSERT
or
UPDATE
COMMIT;

He says his current h/w peaks at 1/10th that rate.

My question is: is that current peak rate ("300 inserts/updates
*or* 2500 selects") based upon 1 connection, or many connections?
With 4 CPUs, and a 4 disk RAID10, I wouldn't be surprised if 4 con-
current connections gives the optimum speed.

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