On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Well, we had zone reclaim mode autoset to 1, and we had to turn it off
> to get decent performance with postgresql. Machine was a quad
> dodecacore Magny Cours, so 48 cores with 128G RAM. RAID controller is
> an Areca 1680 with BBU, 34 15kRPM 147G SAS Seagate 15k6 drives in two
> 16 drive external enclosures and 2 drives in the server.
Also, Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit with all updates last fall right after it came out.