Re: Re: refusing connections based on load ...

On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Nathan Myers wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:28:17PM -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> > I have a Dual-866, 1gig of RAM and strip'd file systems ... this past
> > week, I've hit many times where CPU usage is 100%, RAM is 500Meg free and
> > disks are pretty much sitting idle ...
>
> Assuming "strip'd" above means "striped", it strikes me that you
> might be much better off operating the drives independently, with
> the various tables, indexes, and logs scattered each entirely on one
> drive.

have you ever tried to maintain a database doing this?  PgSQL is
definitely not designed for this sort of setup, I had symlinks goign
everywhere,a nd with the new numbering schema, this is even more difficult
to try and do :)