Re: [GENERAL] Hardware optimising - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [GENERAL] Hardware optimising
Date
Msg-id 199908261629.MAA25506@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Hardware optimising  (Michael <grim@argh.demon.co.uk>)
List pgsql-general
> Hi
>
> I am about to upgrade a server that is about to be running a large and busy
> postgresql database
> currently it has
>
> 128 MB 100 MHz SDRAM
> AMD K6-2/300 CPU
> 10 GB 7200RPM 9.0ms IBM IDE HDD
>
> It will, over the next few months, as money becomes available, be upgraded to:
>
> 256 MB 100 MHz SDRAM
> Dual Athlon 500 CPUs
> 10 GB UltraII Wide SCSI drive

SCSI harddrive, clearly, should be the first change.  Then cpu, then
memory, though it is tough to say.  If you are doing any swapping,
memory first.

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