Re: [PERFORM] postgresql amd-64

2004-11-08 Thread Merlin Moncure
> > Good, I'll give it a shot and see what I come up with...thx. > > > Do share your experience with us. Will do. I have to ship the server on Friday, and the parts are on order. If they come today, I'll have time to test Gentoo, Redhat 32/64, and win32 by then. If I can't get it built until to

Re: [PERFORM] postgresql amd-64

2004-11-08 Thread Radu-Adrian Popescu
Iain wrote: I'm hoping I'll have the opportunity to build a similar machine soon and am wondering about the choice of 64 bit distributions. Gentoo is obviously a possibility but I'm also condsidering Debian. There is also a 64 compile of redhat sources somewhere around, but I can't remember wha

Re: [PERFORM] postgresql amd-64

2004-11-07 Thread Iain
Hi Andrew, I had never heard of Ubuntu before, thanks for the tip. regards iain - Original Message - From: "Andrew McMillan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Iain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 12:51 PM Subject:

Re: [PERFORM] postgresql amd-64

2004-11-07 Thread Iain
mber what they call it offhand. If anyone has opinions about that, I'd be happy to hear. regards Iain - Original Message - From: "Daniel Ceregatti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Merlin Moncure" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturd

Re: [PERFORM] postgresql amd-64

2004-11-05 Thread Vishal Kashyap @ [Sai Hertz And Control Systems]
Merlin, > Good, I'll give it a shot and see what I come up with...thx. > Do share your experience with us. -- With Best Regards, Vishal Kashyap. Did you know SaiPACS is one and only PACS Management tool. http://saihertz.com ---(end of broadcast)--

Re: [PERFORM] postgresql amd-64

2004-11-05 Thread Merlin Moncure
> I have two dual opteron 248's with 4g of ram each, 6x36G 15k rpm ultra > 320 scsi disks in hardware raid 5, and they are by far the fastest > machines I've user used. As far as this "headache" of using 64 bit > Linux, I've experienced no such thing. I'm using gentoo on both > machines, which are

Re: [PERFORM] postgresql amd-64

2004-11-05 Thread Daniel Ceregatti
I have two dual opteron 248's with 4g of ram each, 6x36G 15k rpm ultra 320 scsi disks in hardware raid 5, and they are by far the fastest machines I've user used. As far as this "headache" of using 64 bit Linux, I've experienced no such thing. I'm using gentoo on both machines, which are dedicated

[PERFORM] postgresql amd-64

2004-11-05 Thread Merlin Moncure
Does anybody have any experiences with postgresql 7.4+ running on amd-64 in 64 bit mode? Specifically, does it run quicker and if so do the performance benefits justify the extra headaches running 64 bit linux? Right now I'm building a dual Opteron 246 with 4 gig ddr400. Merlin --