On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 07:34:31PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: > I havent paid that much attention to the comparisons as they tend to be > very windows based and games to boot. But surely its hard to compare > across platforms. The CPUs require different chipsets, so some of the > performance results can be due to the MB and RAM. > http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/20050221/prescott-10.html#synthetic > The P4 640 3.2Ghz is about the same price at one of my suppliers as the 64 > 3500+ and the numbers are not that different. > > For me to switch to a different platform and risk stability issues there > would have to be some decent payoff in either cost savings or serious > performance differences. I am thinking perhaps for my RADIUS accounting > database which is very large might benefit as I have already maxed out the > RAM.
>From what I've seen on the PostgreSQL lists, PostgreSQL sees a huge (30%) performance increase on Opterons over Xeons, and other databases see 10-15%. I haven't seen 32 bit vs 64 bit numbers, but I would expect the increase to be even larger than Xeon to Opteron numbers. -- Jim C. Nasby, Database Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" _______________________________________________ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"