On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Stefano Nichele
<stefano.nichele@gmail.com> wrote:
> Merlin Moncure wrote:
>> IIRC that's the 'perc 6ir' card...no write caching. You are getting
>> killed with syncs. If you can restart the database, you can test with
>> fsync=off comparing load to confirm this. (another way is to compare
>> select only vs regular transactions on pgbench).
>
> I'll try next Saturday.
>
just be aware of the danger . hard reset (power off) class of failure
when fsync = off means you are loading from backups.
merlin