"Greg Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 19 Dec 2007, Dann Corbit wrote: > >> Benchmarking a single system will really only explain that system. >> Someone may have a disk farm with 2GB/Sec throughput >> But such a configuration is very unlikely. > > If you believe comments like those at > http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/1792-Do-it-yourself-X4500.html it's possible > to hit >2GB/s total to the 48 disks in one of the Sun X4500 servers, which > start at $24K. May be unlikely to you, but I was reading there after I set > one > up last night, and that's a boring standard configuration for some Sun and > Greenplum customers.
Surely such machines have kickass memory backplanes too though? How could it ever be reasonable to have an i/o controller with more bandwidth than your memory? -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Ask me about EnterpriseDB's 24x7 Postgres support! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
