we are looking at Xeon, We are currently running it on a quad sun v880 compiled to be 64bit and have been getting dreadful performance. I don't think we really have much to gain from going 64bit.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PgSQL Performance ML" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 8:24 PM Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Value of Quad vs. Dual Processor machine > 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 > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
