On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 13:14, Bill Moran wrote: > I've been given the task of making some hardware recommendations for > the next round of server purchases. The machines to be purchased > will be running FreeBSD & PostgreSQL. > > Where I'm stuck is in deciding whether we want to go with dual-core > pentiums with 2M cache, or with HT pentiums with 8M cache.
BTW: For an interesting article on why the dual core Opterons are so much better than their Intel cousins, read this article: http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q2/opteron-x75/index.x?pg=1 Enlightening read. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster