Hi all, Hopefully a quick query.
Is there anything special I should look at when configuring either PostgreSQL and Linux to work together on an 8-way Intel P-III based system? I currently have the database system running fairly nicely on a 2 CPU Pentium-II 400 server with 512MB memory, hardware RAID with 32MB cache on the controllers, unfortunately the db file systems are RAID-5 but I am not in a position to change that. I'm mainly interested in what I should concentrate on from a Linux/PostgreSQL config point of view to see if we can take advantage of the extra CPUs. - Yes it's overkill but this is a piece of surplus hardware we don't have to buy. Perhaps some may say Linux isn't the best option for an 8 CPU server but this is what I have to work with for reasons we won't get into :-) The current usage is along the lines of a few thousands updates spread over the space of a few hours in the morning then followed by a thousand select queries to do some reporting. The server also runs an apache web server for people to access but is only used to view html files on a fairly ad-hoc basis, nothing serious on the web side of things. Currently RedHat 9 with PostgreSQL 7.3.2 installed. Thanks for your time Linz ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html