On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 22:31:29 -0400
Keith Worthington <KeithW@NarrowPathInc.com> wrote:

> Frank,
>
> A couple of things I wish I had been told when I started asking how to
>
> configure a new machine.
>
> Use RAID 10 (striping across mirrored disks)
> or RAID 0+1 (mirror a striped array) for your data.
> Use RAID 1 (mirror) for your OS
> Use RAID 1 (mirror) for the WAL.
>
> Don't put anything else on the array holding the WAL.
>
> There have been problems with Xeon processors.

I believe all of these issues are covered in the article, but
obviously not clearly enough. I'll work on rewording that section.

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Frank Wiles <frank@wiles.org>
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