Re: Server recommendations

On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 10:37, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> Christopher Browne wrote:
>
> > Oops! gearond(at)fireserve(dot)net (Dennis Gearon) was seen spray-painting on a wall:
[snip]
> From what I read on postgresql lists, it seems that opteron based machines are
> doing quite a good job as database server with right kind of disk. You could
> look at any such machine for database server..
>
> Check this..
>
> http://www.polywell.com/us/rackservers/poly1u2c.asp
> http://www.opteronics.com/opteron-servers.htm
>
> IMO they could be better machine for databases. Get a 64 bit linux kernel and
> run 32 bit postgresql on it. Should work like a charm..

Why not run 64-bit PG on the 64-bit kernel? A bunch of distros
are releasing support for the AMD64 this month.

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