Re: [PERFORM] Benchmarking postgres on Solaris/Linux

2004-03-24 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Josh Berkus wrote: Mark, It might be worth considering Apple if you want a 64-bit chip that has a clock speed comparable to Intel's - the Xserv is similarly priced to Sun V210 (both dual cpu 1U's). Personally I'd stay *far* away from the XServs until Apple learns to build some real

Re: [PERFORM] Benchmarking postgres on Solaris/Linux

2004-03-23 Thread Josh Berkus
Mark, It might be worth considering Apple if you want a 64-bit chip that has a clock speed comparable to Intel's - the Xserv is similarly priced to Sun V210 (both dual cpu 1U's). Personally I'd stay *far* away from the XServs until Apple learns to build some real server harware.The

Re: [PERFORM] Benchmarking postgres on Solaris/Linux

2004-03-22 Thread Josh Berkus
Stalin, As anyone done benchmarking tests with postgres running on solaris and linux (redhat) assuming both environment has similar hardware, memory, processing speed etc. By reading few posts here, i can see linux would outperform solaris cause linux being very good at kernel caching than

Re: [PERFORM] Benchmarking postgres on Solaris/Linux

2004-03-22 Thread Mark Kirkwood
The hardware platform to deploy onto may well influence your choice : Intel is usually the most cost effective , which means using Linux makes sense in that case (anybody measured Pg performance on Solaris/Intel?). If however, you are going to run a very big in some sense database, then 64