El Mar 23 Ene 2001 12:38, Frank Joerdens escribió: > I am faced with the task of installing, configuring, and tuning my > database, which is currently running under Linux, under Solaris 7 on a > brand-new and shiny Sun UltraSPARC (3 CPUs, 768 MB RAM), because the > sysadmin at the site hasn't used or installed PostgreSQL and would rather > have me do it. Is this actually supported? The FAQ (the one bundled with > the 7.1 beta3 which I'll be using) lists only: > > sparc_solaris - SUN SPARC on Solaris 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1 No problem for me. Solaris 7 and 8. > If it is supported (I don't suppose a little OS version number increment > would make a differnce here), I've never used Solaris or anything other > than Intel-based hardware and am looking for some info on what to watch > out for and consider when installing and tuning PostgreSQL on Solaris on > a SPARC plattform. Aside from the shared memory stuff in the Admin > Guide, I haven't found anything so far. Particularly, I would expect > that you could gain a significant performance boost from running the > database on a 64 bit plattform (without knowing exactly why, only > picking up on word-of-mouth and assorted hype on 64 bit architectures). > How do you get the most out of it? Would I use gcc or the native Sun > compiler (how do you control that anyway)? Well, maybe I'm wrong, but I guess the 64 bit push you get it compiling. I mean, memory pages of the OS should be bigger, and the int should also be a 64 bit int, and not a 32 bit int. Maybe there is more then that, but it's all I have to the moment. Talking about compiler, I use gcc (compiled with the pre-compiled gcc binaries) with the the Solaris binutils, especially because it makes life easier. Now, it would be a good idea to try Linux or NetBSD on the SPARC instead of Solaris. I am at this moment getting info on the instalation of Linux distros and the BSD distros for SPARC, and really think we can get a boost from this. Hope this helps. ;-) -- System Administration: It's a dirty job, but someone told I had to do it. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Martín Marqués email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Fe - Argentina http://math.unl.edu.ar/~martin/ Administrador de sistemas en math.unl.edu.ar -----------------------------------------------------------------
