Re: Hardware purchase question

From: Andrew Hood <ahood(dot)lists(at)ambergreen(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Hardware purchase question
Date: 2004-12-14 09:33:55
Message-ID: 41BEB383.6050300@ambergreen.co.uk
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
> An Opteron, properly tuned with PostgreSQL will always beat a Xeon
> in terms of raw cpu.
>
> RAID 10 will typically always outperform RAID 5 with the same HD config.
>
> Fibre channel in general will always beat a normal (especially an LSI)
> raid.
>
> Dell's suck for PostgreSQL.

Does anyone have any OS recommendations/experiences for PostgreSQL on
Opteron?

Thanks,
Andrew

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