| From: | Doug McNaught <doug(at)wireboard(dot)com> |
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| 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 00:29:46 |
| Message-ID: | m33danl1fp.fsf@belphigor.mcnaught.org |
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GH <grasshacker(at)over-yonder(dot)net> writes:
> 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.
Bah. Spare us the flamebait.
Some of us are running PG on RHL quite happily.
[FreeBSD is great too.]
-Doug
--
The rain man gave me two cures; he said jump right in,
The first was Texas medicine--the second was just railroad gin,
And like a fool I mixed them, and it strangled up my mind,
Now people just get uglier, and I got no sense of time... --Dylan
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