Yes but you keep comparing apples and oranges. Your benchmarks don't
mean hardly anything CPU speed wise because you've got so many other
variants.
postgres@vrane.com wrote:
>1. 64MB machines beat 192MB and 240MB machies.
>
>2. On 64 MB machine I tested on 5400rpm drive
> and still much faster than athlon machine.
>
>3. On sis machine I am using a separete ati agp card
> not the built in one and as a result
> i am using all memory.
>
>You would expect AMD machines to be at least
>slightly faster because cpu speed ratio are
>about 2 or bigger. You might not expect
>linear scaling but at least faster you know.
>
>Also as I said kernel compilation time
>scales almost linearly with cpu speed
>
>
>
>On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 09:49:31AM -0400, P.J. Josh Rovero wrote:
>
>>A fairer test would be to equip the machines with equivalent
>>disk (rpms and number) and RAM (amount and speed) configurations.
>>
>>SiS motherboards, particularly with on-board video, tend
>>to be lower performance than boards with separate AGP/PCI
>>video.
>>
>>postgres@vrane.com wrote:
>>
>>>Hi
>>>
>>>I would like to upgrade my production pg server from a machine with
>>>following specs
>>> celeron 900MHz, intel 810 motherboard, 512MB
>>> pc 133 sdram memory,
>>> PGDATA is on 2 ide 7200rpm drives under software raid 1,
>>> linux kernel 2.4.18
>>>
>>.
>>.
>>.
>>
>>>My workstation specs is amd 1.33GHz, 192MB SDRAM, SIS motherboard,
>>>$PGDATA is on a single 5400rpm drive.
>>>
>>--
>>P. J. "Josh" Rovero Sonalysts, Inc.
>>Email: rovero@sonalysts.com www.sonalysts.com 215 Parkway North
>>Work: (860)326-3671 or 442-4355 Waterford CT 06385
>>***********************************************************************
>>
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