[PERFORM] Shopping for hardware

2003-10-06 Thread Jason Hihn
Ok, I asked this on [novice], but I was told it's be better to post it here... I've got some money to spend on a new servers. The biggest concern is the PostgreSQL database server that will be the company. (*Everyone* uses the database server in some form or another) I'm looking for hot-swappable

Re: [PERFORM] Shopping for hardware

2003-10-06 Thread scott.marlowe
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Jason Hihn wrote: Ok, I asked this on [novice], but I was told it's be better to post it here... I've got some money to spend on a new servers. The biggest concern is the PostgreSQL database server that will be the company. (*Everyone* uses the database server in some

Re: [PERFORM] Shopping for hardware

2003-10-06 Thread Vivek Khera
JH == Jason Hihn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JH The configuration that is going on in my head is: JH RAID 1, 200gig disks JH 1 server, 4g ram JH Linux 2.4 or 2.6 (depends on when we deploy and 2.6's track record at that JH time) My recommendation is to get more disks (smaller and faster) rather

Re: [PERFORM] Shopping for hardware

2003-10-06 Thread Josh Berkus
Jason, In terms of numbers, we expect have an average of 100 active connections (most of which are idle 9/10ths of the time), with about 85% reading traffic. I hope to have one server host about 1000-2000 active databases, with the largest being about 60 meg (no blobs). Inactive databases