I wanted to solicit some opinions on architecture and performance from
you guys.
I am torn right now between these two systems to replace my aging DB server:
4 x 2.2 GHz Opteron
8GB RAM
Ultra320 15kRPM RAID5 with 128MB cache
and
2-way 1.2GHz POWER4+ IBM pSeries 615
8GB RAM
Ultra320 15kRPM RAID5 with 64MB cache
I plan on serving ~80GB of pgsql database on this machine. The current
machine handles around 1.5 million queries per day.
I am having some trouble finding direct comparisons between the two
architectures. The OS will most likely be Linux ( I'm hedging on AIX
for now ). The pSeries has 8MB cache per CPU card ( 2 CPU on a card )
while the Opteron has 1MB for each processor. I know the POWER4+ is a
very fast machine but I wonder if having more processors in the Opteron
system would beat it for database serving? FWIW, they are very close in
price.
Ignoring the fault-tolerance features of the pSeries, which one would
you pick for performance?
Thanks,
Dan
