On 11/24/07, Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is a conflict which will affect Postgres in the future as well. > Generally > I/O costs win over cpu costs in databases since only relatively small > systems > are cpu-bound. Large systems are typically I/O-bound. >
That really depends on hardware doesn't it? I'd say that I'm more concerned with CPU than IO on high-end hardware as a generalization, especially with the scaling issues beyond 32 CPU's. Regards, Gavin
