Re: Dual core Opterons beating quad core Xeons?

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Decibel! <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>
Cc: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "Greg Smith" <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>, "Stuart Bishop" <stuart(at)stuartbishop(dot)net>, <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Dual core Opterons beating quad core Xeons?
Date: 2007-12-20 04:25:56
Message-ID: 20071219202556.16795e28@commandprompt.com
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On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:51:13 -0600
Decibel! <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> wrote:

> On Dec 19, 2007, at 4:54 PM, Gregory Stark wrote:
> > "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> >
> >> It is pretty much common knowledge that
> >
> > I think we have too much "common knowledge".
>
>
> Yeah. For a lot of folks it's still common knowledge that you should
> only set shared_buffers to 10% of memory...

Sometimes that's true ;).

Joshua D. Drake

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