We use XEON Quads (PowerEdge 6650s) and they work nice, provided you configure the postgres properly. Dell is the cheapest quad you can buy i think. You shouldn't be paying 30K unless you are getting high CPU-cache on each processor and tons of memory. I am actually curious, have you researched/attempted any postgresql clustering solutions? I agree, you can't just keep buying bigger machines. They have 5 internal drives (4 in RAID 10, 1 spare) on U320, 128MB cache on the PERC controller, 8GB RAM. Thanks, Anjan
-----Original Message----- From: Bjoern Metzdorf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 5/11/2004 3:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Pgsql-Admin (E-mail) Subject: [PERFORM] Quad processor options Hi, I am curious if there are any real life production quad processor setups running postgresql out there. Since postgresql lacks a proper replication/cluster solution, we have to buy a bigger machine. Right now we are running on a dual 2.4 Xeon, 3 GB Ram and U160 SCSI hardware-raid 10. Has anyone experiences with quad Xeon or quad Opteron setups? I am looking at the appropriate boards from Tyan, which would be the only option for us to buy such a beast. The 30k+ setups from Dell etc. don't fit our budget. I am thinking of the following: Quad processor (xeon or opteron) 5 x SCSI 15K RPM for Raid 10 + spare drive 2 x IDE for system ICP-Vortex battery backed U320 Hardware Raid 4-8 GB Ram Would be nice to hear from you. Regards, Bjoern ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster