On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <ste...@kaltenbrunner.cc> wrote: >> Good to know!!! I imagine that on a PS3 it would be _really_ fast... :-) > > well not really - while it is fairly easy to get postgresql running on a PS3 > it is not a fast platform. While the main CPU there is a pretty fast Power > based core it only has 256MB of Ram and a single SATA disk available(though > you could add some USB disks).
The nice thing about it is that TPC-C and other benchmarks all specify their bottom-line number in some unit like Transaction per second PER DOLLAR. So using a PS3 should be able to get ridiculously good results compared to expensive server hardware... -- greg -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
