Re: Best OS for Postgres 8.2 - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Steinar H. Gunderson
Subject Re: Best OS for Postgres 8.2
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Msg-id 20070508094806.GA2838@uio.no
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In response to Re: Best OS for Postgres 8.2  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: Best OS for Postgres 8.2  (david@lang.hm)
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On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:14:08PM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> It is my understanding (and I certainly could be wrong) that FreeBSD
> doesn't handle SMP nearly as well as Linux (and Linux not as well as
> Solaris).

I'm not actually sure about the last part. There are installations as big as
1024 CPUs that run Linux -- most people won't need that, but it's probably an
indicator that eight cores should run OK :-)

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