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On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Scott Marlowe wrote:
I've read some recent contrary advice. Specifically advising the sharing of all files (pg_xlogs, indices, etc..) on a huge raid array and letting the drives load balance by brute force.The other, at first almost counter-intuitive result was that putting pg_xlog on a different partition on the same array (i.e. one big physical partition broken up into multiple logical ones) because the OS overhead of writing all the data to one file system caused performance issues. Can't remember who reported the performance increase of the top of my head.
I noticed this behavior on the last Areca based 8 disk Raptor system I built. Putting pg_xlog on a separate partition on the same logical volume was faster than putting it on the large volume. It was also faster to have 8xRAID10 for OS+data+pg_xlog vs 6xRAID10 for data and 2xRAID1 for pg_xlog+OS. Your workload may vary, but it's definitely worth testing. The system in question had 1GB BBU.
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