Re: Benchmark: Dell/Perc 6, 8 disk RAID 10

From: Justin <justin(at)emproshunts(dot)com>
To: Craig James <craig_james(at)emolecules(dot)com>
Cc: Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Benchmark: Dell/Perc 6, 8 disk RAID 10
Date: 2008-03-17 19:38:19
Message-ID: 47DEC8AB.8060608@emproshunts.com
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Craig James wrote:
> Justin wrote:
>>> 2000 tps ??? do you have fsync turned off ?
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>
>> No its turned on.
>
> Unless I'm seriously confused, something is wrong with these numbers.
> That's the sort of performance you expect from a good-sized RAID 10
> six-disk array. With a single 7200 rpm SATA disk and XFS, I get 640
> tps. There's no way you could 2000 tps from a single disk.
>
> Craig
>

it is a RAID 10 controller with 6 SAS 10K 73 gig drives. The server
is 3 weeks old now.

it has 16 gigs of RAM
2 quad core Xenon 1.88 Ghz processors
2 gig Ethernet cards.
RAID controller perc 6/i with battery backup 512meg cache, setup not lie
about fsync

WAL is on a RAID 0 drive along with the OS

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