On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 08:02:50 -0700, Adam Haberlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > With all the Opteron v. Xeon around here, and talk of $30,000 machines, > perhaps it would be worth exploring the option of buying 10 cheapass > machines for $300 each. At the moment, that $300 buys you, from Dell, a > 2.5Ghz Pentium 4 w/ 256mb of RAM and a 40Gb hard drive and gigabit ethernet. > The aggregate CPU and bandwidth is pretty stupendous, but not as easy to > harness as a single machine.
That isn't going to be ECC ram. I don't think you really want to use non-ECC ram in a critical database. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
