Steve, > Okay. InCPU-bound servers, use hw RAID. Any hw raids to avoid?
Well, the list of ones which are good is shorter: pretty much LSI and 3Ware (for SATA). You can suffer with Adaptec if you have to. > If we went with a single CPU, like Athlon/Opertron64, would CS > storming go away? Yes. And then you might be able to use SW Raid. Of course, you may lose performance in other areas with the 1 processor. -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org