Re: 8 way Intel Xeon system

From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 8 way Intel Xeon system
Date: 2003-08-28 02:49:23
Message-ID: m38ypelcng.fsf@chvatal.cbbrowne.com
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After a long battle with technology,tomka(at)zeus(dot)gau(dot)hu (Tomka Gergely), an earthling, wrote:
> 2003-08-27 ragyogó napján Castle, Lindsay ezt üzente:
>> Perhaps some may say Linux isn't the best option for an 8 CPU
>> server but this is what I have to work with for reasons we won't
>> get into :-)
>
> This is not true, 2.4 series AFAIK run nicely on these monstrums. If
> you want some thrill, try 2.6-test series. Linux Is Good For You
> (tm) :)

The other "bleeding edge" that it'll be interesting to see, um,
"coagulate," is Dragonfly BSD, which plans to do some really
interesting SMP stuff as a fork of FreeBSD...
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