Re:

Dan Harris wrote:
> Orhan Aglagul wrote:
>> Hi Everybody,
>>
>> I was trying to see how many inserts per seconds my application could
>> handle on various machines.
>>
>>
>> I read that postgres does have issues with MP Xeon (costly context
>> switching). But I still think that with fsync=on 65 seconds is
>> ridiculous.
>
> CPU is unlikely your bottleneck..  You failed to mention anything about
> your I/O setup.  More details in this regard will net you better
> responses.  However, an archive search for insert performance will
> probably be worthwhile, since this type of question is repeated about
> once a month.

He also fails to mention if he is doing the inserts one at a time or as
batch.


Joshua D. Drake

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