Re: [PERFORM] ok you all win what is best opteron (I dont want a hosed system again)

2005-05-14 Thread Joel Fradkin
: David Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 7:03 PM To: Joel Fradkin Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [PERFORM] ok you all win what is best opteron (I dont want a hosed system again) Joel Fradkin wrote: Is the battery backed cache good or bad for Postgres

Re: [PERFORM] ok you all win what is best opteron (I dont want a hosed system again)

2005-05-14 Thread Josh Berkus
Joel, The two worst queries (our case and audit applications) I created denormalized files and maintain them through code. All reporting comes off those and it is lightning fast. This can often be called for. I'm working on a 400GB data warehouse right now, and almost *all* of our queries

Re: [PERFORM] ok you all win what is best opteron (I dont want a hosed system again)

2005-05-13 Thread Merlin Moncure
Joel wrote: I have been following threads (in case you don't know I bought a 4 proc Dell recently) and the Opteron seems the way to go. I just called HP for a quote, but don't want to make any mistakes. [snip] At your level of play it's the DL585. Have you checked out http://www.swt.com? Merlin