Matt, Stalin, > As for the compute intensive side (complex joins & sorts etc), the Dell will most likely beat the Sun by some distance, although > what the Sun lacks in CPU power it may make up a bit in memory bandwidth/ latency.
Personally, I've been unimpressed by Dell/Xeon; I think the Sun might do better than you think, comparitively. On all the Dell servers I've used so far, I've not seen performance that comes even close to the hardware specs. -- -Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org