Volger,
> Since our current Postgres server, a quad Xeon system, finally can't keep
> up with our load anymore we're ready to take the next step.
There are a lot of reasons this could be happening; Quad Xeon is a problematic
platform, the more so if you're on Dell hardware.
I've run PostgreSQL
In the last exciting episode, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello everyone!
>
> Since our current Postgres server, a quad Xeon system, finally can't
> keep up with our load anymore we're ready to take the next step.
>
> So the question is: Has anyone experiences with running Postgres on
> systems with
The perhaps odd thing is that just about any alternative to quad-Xeon
is likely to be _way_ better. There are some context switching
problems that lead to it being remarkably poorer than you'd expect.
Throw in less-than ideal performance of the PAE memory addressing
system and it seems oddly cripp
On Dec 6, 2004, at 5:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello everyone!
Since our current Postgres server, a quad Xeon system, finally can't
keep up with our
load anymore we're ready to take the next step.
I'm assuming you've already done as much query tweaking as possible.
and are you sure you are
Hello everyone!
Since our current Postgres server, a quad Xeon system, finally can't keep up
with our
load anymore we're ready to take the next step.
So the question is: Has anyone experiences with running Postgres on systems
with
more than 4 processors in a production environment? Which syst
