Re: [PERFORM] Value of Quad vs. Dual Processor machine

2003-11-13 Thread Robert Treat
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 09:28, Jeff wrote: > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 21:13:19 -0500 > "Chris Field" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > we are looking at Xeon, We are currently running it on a quad sun v880 > > compiled to be 64bit and have been getting dreadful performance. I > > don't think we really ha

Re: [PERFORM] Value of Quad vs. Dual Processor machine

2003-11-12 Thread scott.marlowe
ECTED]> > To: "PgSQL Performance ML" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 8:24 PM > Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Value of Quad vs. Dual Processor machine > > > > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 17:32, Chris Field wrote: > > > We are getting ready to s

Re: [PERFORM] Value of Quad vs. Dual Processor machine

2003-11-12 Thread Jeff
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 21:13:19 -0500 "Chris Field" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > we are looking at Xeon, We are currently running it on a quad sun v880 > compiled to be 64bit and have been getting dreadful performance. I > don't think we really have much to gain from going 64bit. > > By chance, ar

Re: [PERFORM] Value of Quad vs. Dual Processor machine

2003-11-12 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Fred Moyer wrote: One thing I learned after spending about a week comparing the Athlon (2 ghz, 333 mhz frontside bus) and Xeon (2.4 ghz, 266 mhz frontside bus) platforms was that on average the select queries I was benchmarking ran 30% faster on the Athlon (this was with data cached in memory so ma

Re: [PERFORM] Value of Quad vs. Dual Processor machine

2003-11-11 Thread Fred Moyer
buy it if possible. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Field Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 6:13 PM To: Ron Johnson; PgSQL Performance ML Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Value of Quad vs. Dual Processor machine we are looking at Xeon, We are

Re: [PERFORM] Value of Quad vs. Dual Processor machine

2003-11-11 Thread Chris Field
"PgSQL Performance ML" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 8:24 PM Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Value of Quad vs. Dual Processor machine > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 17:32, Chris Field wrote: > > We are getting ready to spec out a new machine and are wondering about

Re: [PERFORM] Value of Quad vs. Dual Processor machine

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 17:32, Chris Field wrote: > We are getting ready to spec out a new machine and are wondering about > the wisdom of buying a quad versus a dual processor machine. Seing as > how postgres in not a threaded application, and this server will only be > used for log/transaction ana

Re: [PERFORM] Value of Quad vs. Dual Processor machine

2003-11-11 Thread fred
> On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Rod Taylor wrote: > >> On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 18:32, Chris Field wrote: >> > We are getting ready to spec out a new machine and are wondering about >> > the wisdom of buying a quad versus a dual processor machine. Seing as >> > how postgres in not a threaded application, and

Re: [PERFORM] Value of Quad vs. Dual Processor machine

2003-11-11 Thread Allan Wind
On 2003-11-11T17:40:14-0700, scott.marlowe wrote: > 2 CPUs should be plenty. for everyone? No, I must have been thinking of someone else :-) /Allan -- Allan Wind P.O. Box 2022 Woburn, MA 01888-0022 USA signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [PERFORM] Value of Quad vs. Dual Processor machine

2003-11-11 Thread scott.marlowe
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Rod Taylor wrote: > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 18:32, Chris Field wrote: > > We are getting ready to spec out a new machine and are wondering about > > the wisdom of buying a quad versus a dual processor machine. Seing as > > how postgres in not a threaded application, and this se

Re: [PERFORM] Value of Quad vs. Dual Processor machine

2003-11-11 Thread Rod Taylor
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 18:32, Chris Field wrote: > We are getting ready to spec out a new machine and are wondering about > the wisdom of buying a quad versus a dual processor machine. Seing as > how postgres in not a threaded application, and this server will only be > used for log/transaction ana

[PERFORM] Value of Quad vs. Dual Processor machine

2003-11-11 Thread Chris Field
We are getting ready to spec out a new machine and are wondering about the wisdom of buying a quad versus a dual processor machine. Seing as how postgres in not a threaded application, and this server will only be used for log/transaction analysis (it will only ever have a few large queries runnin