oops, sent this to performance by mistake.
Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
>All these replies are really interesting, but the point is not that my
>RAIDs are too slow, or that my CPUs are too slow. My point is that, for
>long stretches of time, by database doesn't come anywhere near using the
>capacity of the hardware. And I think that's odd and would like to
>config it to "false".
>
>
What motherboard are you using, and what distro? Earlier you mentioned
that you're on linux 2.6.7 and
a 64-bit Opteron 244 machine with 8GB main memory, two 4-disk RAID5
arrays (one for
database, one for xlogs).
Also, did you have a chance to test performance before you implemented RAID?
Ron