Re: [PERFORM] 8 way Intel Xeon system
2003-08-27 ragyogó napján Christopher Browne ezt üzente: > After a long battle with technology,[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tomka Gergely), an earthling, > wrote: > > 2003-08-27 ragyogó napján Castle, Lindsay ezt üzente: > >> Perhaps some may say Linux isn't the best option for an 8 CPU > >> server but this is what I have to work with for reasons we won't > >> get into :-) > > > > This is not true, 2.4 series AFAIK run nicely on these monstrums. If > > you want some thrill, try 2.6-test series. Linux Is Good For You > > (tm) :) > > The other "bleeding edge" that it'll be interesting to see, um, > "coagulate," is Dragonfly BSD, which plans to do some really > interesting SMP stuff as a fork of FreeBSD... As isee the pages (what a beautiul insect:) tehy not reach te limit of useability - or i am wrong? -- Tomka Gergely "S most - vajon barbárok nélkül mi lesz velünk? Ők mégiscsak megoldás voltak valahogy..." ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
Re: [PERFORM] 8 way Intel Xeon system
After a long battle with technology,[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tomka Gergely), an earthling, wrote: > 2003-08-27 ragyogó napján Castle, Lindsay ezt üzente: >> Perhaps some may say Linux isn't the best option for an 8 CPU >> server but this is what I have to work with for reasons we won't >> get into :-) > > This is not true, 2.4 series AFAIK run nicely on these monstrums. If > you want some thrill, try 2.6-test series. Linux Is Good For You > (tm) :) The other "bleeding edge" that it'll be interesting to see, um, "coagulate," is Dragonfly BSD, which plans to do some really interesting SMP stuff as a fork of FreeBSD... -- let name="cbbrowne" and tld="ntlug.org" in String.concat "@" [name;tld];; http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/nonrdbms.html "People are more vocally opposed to fur than leather because it's easier to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs." [bumper sticker] ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html
Re: [PERFORM] 8 way Intel Xeon system
2003-08-27 ragyogó napján Castle, Lindsay ezt üzente: > Perhaps some may say Linux isn't the best option for an 8 CPU server but > this is what I have to work with for reasons we won't get into :-) This is not true, 2.4 series AFAIK run nicely on these monstrums. If you want some thrill, try 2.6-test series. Linux Is Good For You (tm) :) -- Tomka Gergely "S most - vajon barbárok nélkül mi lesz velünk? Ők mégiscsak megoldás voltak valahogy..." ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
[PERFORM] 8 way Intel Xeon system
Hi all, Hopefully a quick query. Is there anything special I should look at when configuring either PostgreSQL and Linux to work together on an 8-way Intel P-III based system? I currently have the database system running fairly nicely on a 2 CPU Pentium-II 400 server with 512MB memory, hardware RAID with 32MB cache on the controllers, unfortunately the db file systems are RAID-5 but I am not in a position to change that. I'm mainly interested in what I should concentrate on from a Linux/PostgreSQL config point of view to see if we can take advantage of the extra CPUs. - Yes it's overkill but this is a piece of surplus hardware we don't have to buy. Perhaps some may say Linux isn't the best option for an 8 CPU server but this is what I have to work with for reasons we won't get into :-) The current usage is along the lines of a few thousands updates spread over the space of a few hours in the morning then followed by a thousand select queries to do some reporting. The server also runs an apache web server for people to access but is only used to view html files on a fairly ad-hoc basis, nothing serious on the web side of things. Currently RedHat 9 with PostgreSQL 7.3.2 installed. Thanks for your time Linz ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html
