Re: Some pgbench results

On Mar 23, 2006, at 11:32 AM, Bernhard Weisshuhn wrote:

> Just Someone wrote:
>
>> 2 10K SCSI disks in RAID1 for OS and WAL (with it's own partiton on
>> ext3),
>
> You'll want the WAL on its own spindle. IIRC a separate partition
> on a shared disc won't give you much benefit. The idea is to keep
> the disc's head from moving away for other tasks. Or so they say.

Actually, the OS partitions are normally quiet enough that it won't
make a huge difference, unless you're really hammering the database
all the time.
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