Re: Ideal hardware configuration for pgsql

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: GH <grasshacker(at)over-yonder(dot)net>
Cc: Ryan Mahoney <ryan(at)paymentalliance(dot)net>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Ideal hardware configuration for pgsql
Date: 2001-05-03 00:52:55
Message-ID: 200105030052.f430qt904120@candle.pha.pa.us
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> On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 11:35:13PM +0100, some SMTP stream spewed forth:
> > Our db server running 7.1 got *torched* today, system ran between 30% an
> > 80% CPU all day! Right now the server is running on a Penguin Computing
> > 800mhz PIII w/ 128 ram and IDE hardware.
> >
> > Tomorrow I'd like to place an order for something more robust... looking
> > into dual PIII, gig of ram and SCSI Raid. Planning on running Red Hat 7.1
> > on this machine.
>
> I think that anyone whose opinion matters would recommend running
> something *other* than RedHat. FreeBSD is an excellent operating system
> and is well suited to a PostgreSQL environment.

I think I have to agree on that one. Especially Linux's ext2 vs. BSD's
UFS. Of course, I assume you are asking for an optimal solution, not
just something that will work. Linux will work fine for most people.

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