Re: the RAID question, again

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: "Nikolaus Dilger" <nikolaus(at)dilger(dot)cc>, pgsql(dot)spam(at)vinz(dot)nl
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: the RAID question, again
Date: 2003-04-17 03:20:50
Message-ID: 200304162020.50103.josh@agliodbs.com
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Vincent,

> One watchout is that the main memory of your machine
> may be better than the one of your RAID controller.
> The RAID controller has Integrated 128MB PC133 ECC
> SDRAM. You did not state what kind of memory your
> server has.

Nickolaus has a good point. With a high-end Linux server, and a medium-end
RAID card, it's sometimes faster to use Linux software RAID than harware
raid. Not all the time, though.

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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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