>>>>> "SC" == Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> writes:
>> I need to step in and do 2 things:
SC> Thanks for posting that. Let me know if you have any questions while
SC> doing your testing. I've found that using 16K blocks on FreeBSD
SC> results in about an 8% speedup in writes to the database, fwiw.
Where/how does one set this? In postgresql.conf or on the file system
or during compilation of postgres? I'm on FreeBSD 4.8 still.
I've got a box right now on which I'm comparing the speed merits of
hardware RAID10, RAID5, and RAID50 using a filesystem benchmark
utility (bonnie++). If I have time I'm gonna try different striping
block sizes. Right now I'm using 32k byte stripe size.
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