Re: Slow updates, poor IO

Ah yess... actually I can get the Kingston stuff locally.
However at the moment I'm happily married and want to keep it that way!

Everything is in pairs too. Actually its a lot cheaper than when it
first came out, but still
a lot more than your corner shop DDR-2 stuff.

--John

Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 8:01 PM, John Huttley <John(at)mib-infotech(dot)co(dot)nz> wrote:
>
>> Ahh bugger, I've just trashed my test setup.
>> I've settled on 64Mb shared memory since I've only got 1Gb or RAM and the
>> system impact of 256M is severe.
>> Also it uses FB-DIMMS which cost arm+leg+first born
>>
>
> http://www.crucial.com/search/searchresults.aspx?keywords=buffered
>
> Fully buffered memory there is $56.99 for a 1 Gig stick. That's
> hardly an arm and a leg. Considering many pgsql DBAs make that in 1
> to 3 hours, it's not much at all really. A lot cheaper than pulling
> your hair out trying to make a db server run on 1 Gig.
>
>
>