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Subject:Re: [GENERAL] advice on buying sun hardware to run
postgres
Bruce Momjian wrote:
There is. Linux/*BSD use only a big kernel lock, or
several big kernel locks.
I think
Bruce Momjian wrote:
There is. Linux/*BSD use only a big kernel lock, or
several big kernel locks.
I think you're talking silly. BSD has one big lock, but my count there
are around 60 locks in Linux 2.2. Solaris has thousands of locks.
OK, *BSD has one, Linux has 60, and
Dustin Sallings wrote:
Works != works as well as SCSI. I've yet to find an example where
IDE works as well as SCSI in real life (vs. benchmarks). My real life
scenarios rarely involve telling a machine to be still so we can do a disk
read, then again for a disk write.
Modern
Never lost a file to Linux in 5 years.
Haha, just lost my home directory this weekend. But then again, I was in
win98 when my rabbit chewed through a 220V cable and the whole room went
black. Might just have something to do with it (but on the other hand,
win98 shouldn't even be touching that
Maarten Boekhold wrote:
Never lost a file to Linux in 5 years.
Haha, just lost my home directory this weekend. But then again, I was in
win98 when my rabbit chewed through a 220V cable and the whole room went
black. Might just have something to do with it (but on the other hand,
win98
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Chris Bitmead wrote:
# Modern operating systems don't ask the disk to do something and then
# just wait for the answer. That's what interrupts are for. Anyway, modern
# disks have caches.
You can only cache so much. At some point, you're going to
actually want to
On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, Eric Enockson wrote:
I am going to buying a sun server to run postgres
on as a backend database server for a www site. Does anyone
have suggestions on what to buy? Does anyone have
advice on running postgres on solaris or suggestions not to?
Several posters have
Works != works as well as SCSI. I've yet to find an example where
IDE works as well as SCSI in real life (vs. benchmarks). My real life
scenarios rarely involve telling a machine to be still so we can do a disk
read, then again for a disk write.
Probably true. IDE can not access
Jim Jennis wrote:
A DEC (sorry Compaq) Alpha running Linux is a mean combination. Used
Alpha's can be had fairly cheap and they really scream. If cost is an
issue, I would look for an older one used e.g. a
DEC 2100/A500MP (was marketed as a "Sable")
Put Linux on the beast and watch the
