On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Christopher Petrilli wrote: > On Mar 10, 2004, at 3:14 PM, Steve Wolfe wrote: > > > Before I shell out the $15k on the 4-way Opteron, I'm going to spend > > some long, hard time looking for ways to make the system more > > efficient. > > However, after all that's already been done, I'm not optimistic that > > it's > > going to preclude needing the new server. I'm just surprised that > > nobody > > seems to have used PostgreSQL on a quad-Opteron before! > > Well, I haven't had a chance to run PostgreSQL on a quad-Opteron box, > but in discussing this with someone building a cluster out of them, > their experience is that they are seeing better performance out of a > quad-Opteron than a 3Ghz Xeon box (quad as well), which they believe > reflects superior memory architecture. So, if someone has run on a > quad-Xeon of similar "specs", then I would imagine you should see > similar, if not better, numbers.
This article: http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.html?i=1982 seems to support that view that opterons currently scale better than Xeons. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
