From: | Steve Poe <spoe(at)sfnet(dot)cc> |
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To: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
Cc: | Merlin Moncure <merlin(dot)moncure(at)rcsonline(dot)com>, alex(at)neteconomist(dot)com, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: which dual-CPU hardware/OS is fastest for PostgreSQL? |
Date: | 2005-03-28 12:11:59 |
Message-ID: | 4247F48F.8090308@sfnet.cc |
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Greg Stark wrote:
>"Merlin Moncure" <merlin(dot)moncure(at)rcsonline(dot)com> writes:
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>>Alex wrote:
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>>>Without starting too much controvesy I hope, I would seriously
>>>recommend you evaluate the AMCC Escalade 9500S SATA controller.
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>>At the risk of shaming myself with another 'me too' post, I'd like to
>>say that my experiences back this up 100%. The Escalade controllers are
>>excellent and the Raptor drives are fast and reliable (so far).
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>I assume AMCC == 3ware now?
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>Has anyone verified that fsync is safe on these controllers? Ie, that they
>aren't caching writes and "lying" about the write completing like IDE
>drives oft
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For those who speak highly of the Escalade controllers and/Raptor SATA
drives, how is the database being utilized, OLTP or primarily read
access? This is good information I am learning, but I also see the need
to understand the context of how the hardware is being used.
Steve Poe
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