Re: Question on Opteron performance

From: Vivek Khera <khera(at)kcilink(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Question on Opteron performance
Date: 2004-03-11 16:02:33
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>>>>> "SW" == Steve Wolfe <nw(at)codon(dot)com> writes:

SW> However, after all that's already been done, I'm not optimistic that it's
SW> going to preclude needing the new server. I'm just surprised that nobody
SW> seems to have used PostgreSQL on a quad-Opteron before!

I think people saturate the disks before the CPUs. I know I certainly
do, even with 4GB RAM and a fair number of shared buffers. Dual CPUs
are more then plenty for our usage patterns.

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