Benchmark: Dell/Perc 6, 8 disk RAID 10

I just received a new server and thought benchmarks would be interesting.  I think this looks pretty good, but maybe
thereare some suggestions about the configuration file.  This is a web app, a mix of read/write, where writes tend to
be"insert into ... (select ...)" where the resulting insert is on the order of 100 to 10K rows of two integers.  An
externalprocess also uses a LOT of CPU power along with each query. 

Thanks,
Craig


Configuration:
  Dell 2950
  8 CPU (Intel 2GHz Xeon)
  8 GB memory
  Dell Perc 6i with battery-backed cache
  RAID 10 of 8x 146GB SAS 10K 2.5" disks

Everything (OS, WAL and databases) are on the one RAID array.

Diffs from original configuration:

max_connections = 1000
shared_buffers = 400MB
work_mem = 256MB
max_fsm_pages = 1000000
max_fsm_relations = 5000
wal_buffers = 256kB
effective_cache_size = 4GB

Bonnie output (slightly reformatted)

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Delete files in random order...done.
Version  1.03
         ------Sequential Output------       --Sequential Input-      --Random-
      -Per Chr-   --Block--    -Rewrite-     -Per Chr-   --Block--    --Seeks--
 Size K/sec %CP   K/sec  %CP   K/sec  %CP    K/sec %CP   K/sec  %CP    /sec %CP
  16G 64205  99   234252  38   112924  26    65275  98   293852  24   940.3   1

         ------Sequential Create------    --------Random Create--------
      -Create--   --Read---   -Delete--   -Create--   --Read---   -Delete--
files  /sec %CP    /sec %CP    /sec %CP    /sec %CP    /sec %CP    /sec %CP
   16 12203  95   +++++ +++   19469  94   12297  95   +++++ +++   15578  82


www.xxx.com,16G,64205,99,234252,38,112924,26,65275,98,293852,24,940.3,1,16,12203,95,+++++,+++,19469,94,12297,95,+++++,+++,15578,82

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$ pgbench -c 10 -t 10000 -v test -U test
starting vacuum...end.
starting vacuum accounts...end.
transaction type: TPC-B (sort of)
scaling factor: 1
number of clients: 10
number of transactions per client: 10000
number of transactions actually processed: 100000/100000
tps = 2786.377933 (including connections establishing)
tps = 2787.888209 (excluding connections establishing)