On Apr 1, 2008, at 7:20 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
* Greg Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
=4 cores, =8GB RAM, and =8 disks with a usable write-caching
controller
in it.
hrmmm. So a DL385G2, dual-proc/dual-core with 16GB of ram and 8 SAS
disks with a Smart Array P800 w/ 512MB of write cache
FYI, we (Stefan and I) started a wiki page to organize this effort:
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Performances_QA_testing . Ideas and
participation are very welcome.
I also described the platform we have here and the usage of each
server:
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 1:53 AM, Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As far as the other more powerful machines you mentioned go, would need to
know a bit more about the disks and disk controller in there to comment
about whether those are worth the trouble to integrate. The big missing
piece
-hackers,
As I announced it a couple of months ago, apart from the boxes donated
to PostgreSQLFr (affected to the web team IIRC), Continuent also
donated 7 servers and a Gb/s switch to us for QA testing. It took some
time to set them up but they're now up and running and available.
These servers
Guillaume,
* Guillaume Smet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
These servers are available 24/7 to PostgreSQL QA and won't be used
for other purposes.
Awesome.
Concerning the second point, I wonder if it's not worth it to have a
very simple thing already reporting results as the development cycle
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Guillaume Smet wrote:
I wonder if it's not worth it to have a very simple thing already
reporting results as the development cycle for 8.4 has already started
(perhaps several pgbench unit tests testing various type of queries with
a daily tree)
The pgbench-tools
* Greg Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
=4 cores, =8GB RAM, and =8 disks with a usable write-caching controller
in it.
hrmmm. So a DL385G2, dual-proc/dual-core with 16GB of ram and 8 SAS
disks with a Smart Array P800 w/ 512MB of write cache would be helpful?
I've got quite a few such
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 1:53 AM, Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The pgbench-tools utilities I was working on at one point anticipated this
sort of test starting one day. You can't really get useful results out of
pgbench without running it enough times that you get average or median
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Stephen Frost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm almost done scripting up everything to load the TIGER/Line
Shapefiles from the US Census into PostgreSQL/PostGIS. Once it's done
and working I would be happy to provide it to whomever asks, and it
might be an
