P.s. here's one of my two slower slave machines. It has dual quad
core opterons (2352 2.1GHz) and 32 Gig ram. Controller is an Areca
1680 with 512M battery backed cache and 2 disks for pg_xlog and 12 for
the data/base directory. Running Centos 5.4 or so.
pgbench -c 10 -t 10000 test
starting vacuum...end.
transaction type: TPC-B (sort of)
scaling factor: 100
number of clients: 10
number of transactions per client: 10000
number of transactions actually processed: 100000/100000
tps = 5289.941145 (including connections establishing)
tps = 5302.815418 (excluding connections establishing)