Re: [PERFORM] A Better External Sort? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Ron,

> Hmmm.
> 60GB/5400secs= 11MBps.  That's ssllooww.  So the first
> problem is evidently our physical layout and/or HD IO layer
> sucks.

Actually, it's much worse than that, because the sort is only dealing
with one column.  As I said, monitoring the iostat our top speed was
2.2mb/s.

--Josh