On 5/12/05, Koen Tavernier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm putting a dual opteron box together and I will be installing > postgresql 8 on it. Has anyone here compiled this, and is there anything > in particular I should look out for?
We're running a bunch of quad opterons in production now, all on PG 7.4, at this point, though we have started PG8 testing... The challenges of the platform have very little to do with how PostgreSQL compiles and runs, and everything to do with getting any of the esoteric bits of the hardware configuration working. Our challenges have been in getting EMC disk array connections up and running, as the combination of: - High end disk array - Fibrechannel communications cards - High availability drivers have proven troublesome to get supported and somewhat troublesome to get working. That heads towards ambitious needs for HIGH performance disk I/O... If your hardware is a bit more pedestrian, I'd not expect many problems. -- http://www3.sympatico.ca/cbbrowne/linux.html "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." -- Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)
