* Ramiro Barreca wrote:
> As Virtualiaztion is almost discarded after reading many articles that
> locate this option in the "don'ts-list", we want to know your experience (if
> any) about installing a PostgreSQL and a Firebird server in the same Linux
> server.
Depends on the kind of virtualiza
Rodger Donaldson wrote:
On Tue, March 30, 2010 06:09, Greg Smith wrote:
You answered your own question here. Ramiro is looking for suggestions
for how to scale up to >500 connections at once, and it's not that
likely virtualization can fill any useful role in that context.
That rather
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Ramiro Barreca wrote:
> As this is a very heterogeneous platform (from Oracle 10g, SQL Server 2008,
> Firebird 2.1, Mysql 5, Postgre 8.4 up to Informix 5 and even COBOL apps) whe
> are evaluating Virtualization or just sharing a server among PostgreSQL and
> fireb
On Tue, March 30, 2010 06:09, Greg Smith wrote:
> Michael Gould wrote:
>>
>> I don't know why virtualization is considered a no-no...Since these
>> are all quad core with 32 gig running Windows 2003 64 bit, we can run
>> about 100 users concurrently on each application server before we
>> start to
Ramiro Barreca wrote:
1. Is there a configuration option we need to consider to share
this server?
The two main configuration options that impact how much RAM PostgreSQL
uses are shared_buffers and work_mem. If the server is shared, you just
need to avoid tuning those upwards as f
Michael Gould wrote:
I don't know why virtualization is considered a no-no...Since these
are all quad core with 32 gig running Windows 2003 64 bit, we can run
about 100 users concurrently on each application server before we
start to see a strain.
You answered your own question here. Ram
Ramiro,
I don't know why virtualization is considered a no-no. We use VMware ESX.
On some smaller applications we run both the application and database on
the virutal machine. We've not had a issue with this combination in 5+
years. We also have 6 images that run on 2 machines just for th
At this moment we are considering a plan for upgrading many servers in our
datacenter.
As this is a very heterogeneous platform (from Oracle 10g, SQL Server 2008,
Firebird 2.1, Mysql 5, Postgre 8.4 up to Informix 5 and even COBOL apps) whe
are evaluating Virtualization or just sharing a server amon
