Re: [PERFORM] AMD, Intel and RAID controllers

2009-10-29 Thread Greg Smith
On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, Scott Marlowe wrote: On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 12:47 AM, alpesh gajbe wrote: We have a Proliant DL585 G5 with 16 cores and 32 GB Ram in the terms of processors we found that buying amd makes much more sense because in the same price we could put more processors on the machine

Re: [PERFORM] AMD, Intel and RAID controllers

2009-10-03 Thread Alpesh Gajbe
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Benjamin Minshall wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm looking for your general thoughts on CPU brand and HP disk controllers > for a PostgreSQL server running Linux. The workload is all over the place > sometimes OLTP, sometimes huge/long report transactions, sometimes ton

Re: [PERFORM] AMD, Intel and RAID controllers

2009-10-02 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 12:47 AM, alpesh gajbe wrote: > We have a Proliant DL585 G5 with 16 cores and 32 GB Ram in the terms of > processors we found that buying amd makes much more sense because in the > same price we could put more processors > on the machine and utilize the multiple cores effec

Re: [PERFORM] AMD, Intel and RAID controllers

2009-10-01 Thread alpesh gajbe
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Benjamin Minshall wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm looking for your general thoughts on CPU brand and HP disk controllers > for a PostgreSQL server running Linux. The workload is all over the place > sometimes OLTP, sometimes huge/long report transactions, sometimes ton

Re: [PERFORM] AMD, Intel and RAID controllers

2009-10-01 Thread Greg Smith
On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Benjamin Minshall wrote: I'm basically looking at something in the ProLiant DL380 series which boils down to Intel Xeon 5500 or AMD Opteron 2600. Are there any notable performance concerns regarding Postgres on either of these cpus? The Xeon 5500 series are very impressiv