Re: AMD or Intel?

2007-09-13 Thread Palle Girgensohn
--On torsdag, torsdag 13 sep 2007 19.44.50 -0400 Francisco Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Palle Girgensohn writes: Presently ~pgsql/data has a 16 GB footprint. If you can put 4GB or better in your machine you should do well. Specially since you mentioned you are mostly read with relati

SATA mirrror performance

2007-09-13 Thread João Carlos Mendes Luís
Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right forum, but since the main keyword is performance, I'd try here first. I have just installed two 500G SATA discs from Seagate, model ST3500641AS in an ASUS M2N-E motherboard (nVidia MCP55 chipset). Since this is a home desktop and I need dual boot,

Re: AMD or Intel?

2007-09-13 Thread Francisco Reyes
Palle Girgensohn writes: Presently ~pgsql/data has a 16 GB footprint. If you can put 4GB or better in your machine you should do well. Specially since you mentioned you are mostly read with relatively small amount of writes. The growth is rather slow, around a percent per week What cont

Re: AMD or Intel?

2007-09-13 Thread Palle Girgensohn
--On torsdag, torsdag 13 sep 2007 15.07.17 -0400 Francisco Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Palle Girgensohn writes: Now, I hear rumors that AMD is to be preferred over Intel for performance From what I have read in the past, specially in the postgresql list, it seems the AMD64 cpus do b

Re: AMD or Intel?

2007-09-13 Thread Francisco Reyes
Palle Girgensohn writes: Now, I hear rumors that AMD is to be preferred over Intel for performance From what I have read in the past, specially in the postgresql list, it seems the AMD64 cpus do better with Postgresql. Possibly because of better bus architecture. Personally I think having

Re: AMD or Intel?

2007-09-13 Thread Claus Guttesen
> > On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 08:57:32AM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: > >> It seems that Broadcom is back into this game. > > > > So far the Broadcom Serverworks HT1000 SATA controller is POO. > > I'm seeing all kinds of disk corruption with FreeBSD on a Tyan s3992. > > Googling shows that other Fre

Re: AMD or Intel?

2007-09-13 Thread Palle Girgensohn
--On onsdag, september 12, 2007 16.08.48 -0700 David O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 08:57:32AM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: It seems that Broadcom is back into this game. So far the Broadcom Serverworks HT1000 SATA controller is POO. I'm seeing all kinds of di