On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 13:38, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 09:47:36AM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: > > As long as you're on x86, scaling outward is the way to go. If you want to > > continue to scale upwards, ask Andrew Sullivan about his experiences running > > PostgreSQL on big IBM boxes. But if you consider an quad-Opteron server > > expensive, I don't think that's an option for you.
> The 650s are not cheap, but boy are they fast. I don't have any > numbers I can share, but I can tell you that we recently had a few > days in which our write load was as large as the entire write load > for last year, and you couldn't tell. It is too early for us to say > whether the P series lives up to its billing in terms of relibility: > the real reason we use these machines is reliability, so if > approaching 100% uptime isn't important to you, the speed may not be > worth it. Agreed completely, and the 570 knocks the 650 out of the water -- nearly double the performance for math heavy queries. Beware vendor support for Linux on these things though -- we ran into many of the same issues with vendor support on the IBM machines as we did with the Opterons. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
