Re: Partitioning / Clustering - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Mischa Sandberg
Subject Re: Partitioning / Clustering
Date
Msg-id 1115758145.42811e41a1765@webmail.telus.net
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In response to Re: Partitioning / Clustering  (Richard_D_Levine@raytheon.com)
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Quoting Richard_D_Levine@raytheon.com:

> > exploring the option of buying 10 cheapass
> > machines for $300 each.  At the moment, that $300 buys you, from
> Dell, a
> > 2.5Ghz Pentium 4
>
> Buy cheaper ass Dells with an AMD 64 3000+.  Beats the crap out of
> the 2.5
> GHz Pentium, especially for PostgreSQL.

Whence "Dells with an AMD 64" ?? Perhaps you skimmed:

  http://www.thestreet.com/tech/kcswanson/10150604.html
or
  http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1553822,00.asp





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