Re: File Systems Compared

Brian Hurt <bhurt@janestcapital.com>

From: Brian Hurt <bhurt@janestcapital.com>
To: Luke Lonergan <llonergan@greenplum.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Date: 2006-12-06T16:40:06Z
Lists: pgsql-performance
Luke Lonergan wrote:

>Brian,
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>On 12/6/06 8:02 AM, "Brian Hurt" <bhurt@janestcapital.com> wrote:
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>>These numbers are close enough to bus-saturation rates
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>PCIX is 1GB/s + and the memory architecture is 20GB/s+, though each CPU is
>likely to obtain only 2-3GB/s.
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>We routinely achieve 1GB/s I/O rate on two 3Ware adapters and 2GB/s on the
>Sun X4500 with ZFS.
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For some reason I'd got it stuck in my head that PCI-Express maxed out 
at a theoretical 533 MByte/sec- at which point, getting 480 MByte/sec 
across it is pretty dang good.  But actually looking things up, I see 
that PCI-Express has a theoretical 8 Gbit/sec, or about 800Mbyte/sec.  
It's PCI-X that's 533 MByte/sec.  So there's still some headroom 
available there.

Brian