On 14 Dec 2007 12:48:55 +0100 vermaden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > I have an old netfinity 7000 (Quad PIII 500, 1Gb RAM) running 6.2 > > at the moment. I was wondering if it will take benefit of all the > > SMP improvement of 7 or is it too old? It runs a few postgresql > > databases, peak loads in the 2 to 4 range. [...] > FreeBSD 7 will be doing a lot better there, since FreeBSD 6 does not scale so > well. > You may want to check these: > http://blog.insidesystems.net/articles/2007/04/11/more-is-better > http://blog.insidesystems.net/articles/2007/04/11/postgresql-scaling-on-6-2-and-7-0 > http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/4cpu-pgsql.png > http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/p3.png > Regards > vermaden Thanks for that, I guess it's time to update and re-test my backups before an upgrade to 7... I think I've found something to do next week-end... Now explore the changelog for any showstoppers.
Regards and thanks again, -- MaXX _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
