I've seen quite a few folks touting the Opteron as 2.5x
faster with postgres than a Xeon box. What makes the
Opteron so quick? Is it that Postgres really prefers to
run in 64-bit mode?
I don't know about 2.5x faster (perhaps on specific types
of loads), but the reason Opterons rock for
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, J. Andrew Rogers wrote:
I don't know about 2.5x faster (perhaps on specific types of loads), but the
reason Opterons rock for database applications is their insanely good memory
bandwidth and latency that scales much better than the Xeon. Opterons also
have a ccNUMA-esque
I posted this link a few months ago and there was some surprise over the
difference in postgresql compared to other DBs. (Not much surprise in
Opteron stomping on Xeon in pgsql as most people here have had that
experience -- the surprise was in how much smaller the difference was in
other
On Apr 20, 2005, at 12:40 AM, Jeff Frost wrote:
I've seen quite a few folks touting the Opteron as 2.5x faster with
postgres than a Xeon box. What makes the Opteron so quick? Is it
that Postgres really prefers to run in 64-bit mode?
The I/O path on the opterons seems to be much faster, and
In terms of vendor specific models -
Does anyone have any good/bad experiences/recommendations for a 4-way
Opteron from Sun (v40z, 6 internal drives) or HP (DL585 5 internal
drives) models?
This is in comparison with the new Dell 6850 (it has PCIexpress, faster
FSB 667MHz, which doesn't match up
Anjan Dave wrote:
In terms of vendor specific models -
Does anyone have any good/bad experiences/recommendations for a 4-way
Opteron from Sun (v40z, 6 internal drives) or HP (DL585 5 internal
drives) models?
This is in comparison with the new Dell 6850 (it has PCIexpress, faster
FSB
On Wednesday 20 April 2005 17:50, Bruce Momjian wrote:
Anjan Dave wrote:
In terms of vendor specific models -
Does anyone have any good/bad experiences/recommendations for a 4-way
Opteron from Sun (v40z, 6 internal drives) or HP (DL585 5 internal
drives) models?
This is in
There have been some discussions on this list and others in general about
Dell's version of RAID cards, and server support, mainly linux support.
Before I venture into having another vendor in the shop I want to know if there
are any dos/don't's about 4-way Opteron offerings from Sun and HP.
Anjan,
Does anyone have any good/bad experiences/recommendations for a 4-way
Opteron from Sun (v40z, 6 internal drives) or HP (DL585 5 internal
drives) models?
Last I checked, the v40z only takes 5 drives, unless you yank the cd-rom and
get an extra disk tray. That's the main defect of the
The HPs are at root pretty good machines -- and take 6 drives, so I expect
you're mixed up there. However, they use HP's proprietary RAID controller
which is seriously defective. So you need to factor replacing the RAID
controller into the cost.
Do you have any additional materials on
On 4/20/05, Anjan Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In terms of vendor specific models -
Does anyone have any good/bad experiences/recommendations for a 4-way
Opteron from Sun (v40z, 6 internal drives) or HP (DL585 5 internal
drives) models?
We are going with the 90nm HPs for production. They
There have been some discussions on this list and others in general about
Dell's version of RAID cards, and server support, mainly linux support.
I was pretty impressed with the Dell guy. He spent the day with me remotely
and went through my system 6650 with powervault. Changed my drives from
Josh Berkus josh@agliodbs.com writes:
Last I checked, the v40z only takes 5 drives, unless you yank the cd-rom and
get an extra disk tray. That's the main defect of the model, the second
being its truly phenominal noise level. Other than that (and price) and
excellent Opteron machine.
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