Re: [ADMIN] performance comparisons...

heh, well in addition to my response from Linux-SMP, I am using
PostgresQL and PHP 3

:) Gavin

Matthew Hixson wrote:
>
> Hello, I'm currently looking for any documentation anyone on the list
> knows of that shows the performance of Linux on any Intel hardware
> (preferrably a dual PII) for serving web/database services. I know I'm
> stretching the off-topicness here, but please bear with me. I promise
> I'll have some more on topic questions soon.
> I built my first web/database integration system about a year ago using
> PostgreSQL. It went so well that I'm turning to it again for a large
> (25,000) user project. PostgreSQL will be used to maintain user
> information and perform other smaller tasks for our customers.
> What I'm looking for right now is any sort of benchmark that shows how
> much traffic a dual PII machine, running Linux, can handle while
> processing database transaction with PostgreSQL. Even any document that
> shows how many hits per minute a machine like this could take serving flat
> HTML documents would come in handy. I have to sell this system (hardware,
> OS, and PostgreSQL) to a customer tomorrow and am looking for anything
> that will convince them that this machine is going to be fast enough.
> The machine will also have SCSI and anywhere from 128 - 256 MB of RAM.
> Thanks for any help,
> -M@
>
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