Can you describe the vendors/components of a "cheap SAN setup?" Thanks, Anjan
-----Original Message----- From: Rod Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 5:57 PM To: Scott Marlowe Cc: Anjan Dave; Chris Ruprecht; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; William Yu; Postgresql Performance Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Scaling further up > For speed, the X86 32 and 64 bit architectures seem to be noticeable > faster than Sparc. However, running Linux or BSD on Sparc make them > pretty fast too, but you lose the fault tolerant support for things like > hot swappable CPUs or memory. Agreed.. You can get a Quad Opteron with 16GB memory for around 20K. Grab 3, a cheap SAN and setup a little master/slave replication with failover (how is Slony coming?), and you're all set. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html
