<david@lang.hm> writes:
> with a standard 7200 rpm drive ~150 transactions/sec sounds about right
>
> to really speed things up you want to get a disk controller with a battery
> backed cache so that the writes don't need to hit the disk to be safe.
Note that this is only if you're counting transactions/sec in a single
session. You can get much more if you have many sessions since they can all
commit together in a single disk i/o.
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Gregory Stark
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