From: | Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee> |
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To: | gry(at)ll(dot)mit(dot)edu |
Cc: | pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: postgres on a beowulf? (AMD)opteron? |
Date: | 2003-05-20 08:29:34 |
Message-ID: | 1053419374.1435.4.camel@fuji.krosing.net |
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george young kirjutas E, 19.05.2003 kell 20:28:
> Has anyone run postgres on a beowulf system?
I don't think that postgresql will easyly port to beowulf clusters.
> I'm shopping for a new server. One candidate would be a
> quad opteron (64-bit AMD "hammer") machine. Another approach might
> be a beowulf of single or dual opterons. I imagine the beowulf
> would be a bit cheaper, and much more expandable, but what about
> the shared memory used by the postgres backends? I gather that
> postgres uses shared memory to coordinate (locks?) between backends?
>
> I have a smallish DB (pgdump|bzip2 -> 10MB), with ~45 users logged in
> using local X(python/gtk) postgres client apps.
Why do you want such a monster machine for this smallish DB ?
Are there any special performance requirements you are not telling us
about ?
> Will the much slower shared memory access between beowulf nodes be
> a performance bottleneck?
I guess that it will not run at all ;(
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Hannu
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