Re: Quad processor options - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Bjoern Metzdorf
Subject Re: Quad processor options
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Msg-id 40A13B59.4060803@turtle-entertainment.de
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In response to Re: Quad processor options  ("Anjan Dave" <adave@vantage.com>)
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Anjan Dave wrote:

> Did you mean to say the trigger-based clustering solution
 > is loading the dual CPUs 60-70% right now?

No, this is without any triggers involved.

> Performance will not be linear with more processors,
 > but it does help with more processes.
 > We haven't benchmarked it, but we haven't had any
 > problems also so far in terms of performance.

 From the amount of processes view, we certainly can saturate a quad
setup :)

> Price would vary with your relation/yearly purchase, etc,
 > but a 6650 with 2.0GHz/1MB cache/8GB Memory, RAID card,
 > drives, etc, should definitely cost you less than 20K USD.

Which is still very much. Anyone have experience with a self built quad
xeon, using the Tyan Thunder board?

Regards,
Bjoern

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