One thing you can try is to use "-F"
switch which will turn off fsync.
$ man postmaster
There are other possibilities however
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 06:40:32PM -0400, Samuel J. Sutjiono wrote:
> I tried to load data using insert statement to our new database server (Compaq DL580, DL590, DL380 using SCSI driver)
butit was very very slow. The database runs on Red Hat Linux 7.2 and PostgreSQL version 7.1.3
>
> Does anybody know any idea to what cause this problem ? or things that I need to look or check (in the config. file)
>
> I appreciate any help.
>
> Regards,
> Samuel