| From: | Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> | 
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| To: | Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> | 
| Cc: | Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>, Scott Carey <scott(at)richrelevance(dot)com>, "david(at)lang(dot)hm" <david(at)lang(dot)hm>, Brad Nicholson <bnichols(at)ca(dot)afilias(dot)info>, Karl Denninger <karl(at)denninger(dot)net>, Laszlo Nagy <gandalf(at)shopzeus(dot)com>, pgsql-performance <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org> | 
| Subject: | Re: SSD + RAID | 
| Date: | 2009-11-19 21:39:18 | 
| Message-ID: | b42b73150911191339j2ab62c1bu9042ea08a6f142e0@mail.gmail.com | 
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On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> You can use pgbench to either get interesting peak read results, or peak
> write ones, but it's not real useful for things in between.  The standard
> test basically turns into a huge stack of writes to a single table, and the
> select-only one is interesting to gauge either cached or uncached read speed
> (depending on the scale).  It's not very useful for getting a feel for how
> something with a mixed read/write workload does though, which is unfortunate
> because I think that scenario is much more common than what it does test.
all true, but it's pretty easy to rig custom (-f) commands for
virtually any test you want,.
merlin
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