On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Chris Hedemark wrote: > If performance is of the utmost importance, are you sure you want > PostgreSQL?
What would you recommend? I do want the transactions, conssitency, etc., that pg provides, so I'm not likely to use mySQL. And I would very much like the system to be all-free (as in speech), so I'd like to avoid oracle, etc. Any other ideas? > Again, I'd avoid the Sun E450. Disappointment city. It was considered > slow two years ago. My benchmarking of CPU intensive applications against > this machine, fully loaded, was pitiful. Thanks - will keep in mind. > > At the bottom end an SMP Athlon MP box would be an excellent machine. It > would be very hard to spend $5,000 on such a workstation. > > If you really want RISC hardware check out the Sun Blade 1000 at the bottom > end. Dual UltraSPARC III processors, 8MB cache per processor, support for > high memory counts (if needed), etc. A really well spec'd out box would > run you in the neighborhood of $15,000. > > A Compaq AlphaStation DS20E is an absolute shredder with dual 833MHz > Alphas. Two not enough? The ES40 supports four processors (but only at > 667MHz each). > > > _______________________________________________ > TriLUG mailing list > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
