Re: Hardware recommendations to scale to silly load

On 28 Aug 2003 at 11:05, Chris Bowlby wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 23:59, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> > What a fun exercises. Ok, lets see:
> > Postgres 7.3.4
> > RH AS 2.1
> > 12GB RAM
> > motherboard with 64 bit 66MHz PCI slots
> > 4 - Xenon 3.0GHz (1MB cache) CPUs
> > 8 - 36GB 15K RPM as RAID10 on a 64 bit 66MHz U320 controller
> > having 512MB cache (for database)
> > 2 - 36GB 15K RPM as RAID1 on a 64 bit 66MHz U320 controller
> > having 512MB cache (for OS, swap, WAL files)
> > 1 - library tape drive plugged into the OS' SCSI controller. I
> > prefer DLT, but that's my DEC bias.
> > 1 - 1000 volt UPS.
>
> Be careful here, we've seen that with the P4 Xeon's that are
> hyper-threaded and a system that has very high disk I/O causes the
> system to be sluggish and slow. But after disabling the hyper-threading
> itself, our system flew..

Anybody has opteron working? Hows' the performance?

Bye
Shridhar

--
A father doesn't destroy his children. -- Lt. Carolyn Palamas, "Who Mourns for
Adonais?", stardate 3468.1.