| From: | James Thornton <james(at)jamesthornton(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bjoern Metzdorf <bm(at)turtle-entertainment(dot)de> |
| Cc: | pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [PERFORM] Quad processor options - summary |
| Date: | 2004-05-13 21:02:08 |
| Message-ID: | 40A3E250.2020204@jamesthornton.com |
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Bjoern Metzdorf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> at first, many thanks for your valuable replies. On my quest for the
> ultimate hardware platform I'll try to summarize the things I learned.
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> This is what I am considering the ultimate platform for postgresql:
>
> Hardware:
> Tyan Thunder K8QS board
> 2-4 x Opteron 848 in NUMA mode
> 4-8 GB RAM (DDR400 ECC Registered 1 GB modules, 2 for each processor)
> LSI Megaraid 320-2 with 256 MB cache ram and battery backup
> 6 x 36GB SCSI 10K drives + 1 spare running in RAID 10, split over both
> channels (3 + 4) for pgdata including indexes and wal.
You might also consider configuring the Postgres data drives for a RAID
10 SAME configuration as described in the Oracle paper "Optimal Storage
Configuration Made Easy"
(http://otn.oracle.com/deploy/availability/pdf/oow2000_same.pdf). Has
anyone delved into this before?
--
James Thornton
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Internet Business Consultant, http://jamesthornton.com
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