Re: Hardware recommendations to scale to silly load

From: Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net>
To: PgSQL Performance ML <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Hardware recommendations to scale to silly load
Date: 2003-08-29 12:05:36
Message-ID: 1062158736.669.5.camel@haggis
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On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 03:18, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> On 29 Aug 2003 at 0:05, William Yu wrote:
>
> > Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
[snip]
> > As for performance, the scaling is magnificient -- even when just using
> > PAE instead of 64-bit addressing. At low transaction counts, it's only
> > ~75% faster than the 2x Athlon 1800+ MP it replaced. But once the
> > transactions start coming in, the gap is as high as 5x. My w-a-g: since
> > each CPU has an integrated memory controller, you avoid memory bus
> > contention which is probably the major bottleneck as transaction load
> > increases. (I've seen Opteron several vs Xeon comparisons where
> > single-connection tests are par for both CPUs but heavy-load tests favor
> > the Opteron by a wide margin.) I suspect the 4X comparisons would tilt
> > even more towards AMD's favor.
>
> I am sure. But is 64 bit environment, Xeon is not the compitition. It's PA-RSC-
> 8700, ultraSparcs, Power series and if possible itanium.

IMO, Opti will compete in *both* markets.

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