On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 17:32, Chris Field wrote: > We are getting ready to spec out a new machine and are wondering about > the wisdom of buying a quad versus a dual processor machine. Seing as > how postgres in not a threaded application, and this server will only be > used for log/transaction analysis (it will only ever have a few large > queries running). Is there any performance to be gained, and if so is > it worth the large cost? Any thoughts/experience are much > appreciated...
Xeon or Opteron? The faster Opterons *really* blaze, especially in 64-bit mode. As others have said, though, RAM and I/O are most important. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "As I like to joke, I may have invented it, but Microsoft made it popular" David Bradley, regarding Ctrl-Alt-Del ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html