Re: which dual-CPU hardware/OS is fastest for PostgreSQL? - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: which dual-CPU hardware/OS is fastest for PostgreSQL?
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In response to which dual-CPU hardware/OS is fastest for PostgreSQL?  (Miles Keaton <mileskeaton@gmail.com>)
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Miles Keaton wrote:

>I'm sorry if there's a URL out there answering this, but I couldn't find it.
>
>For those of us that need the best performance possible out of a
>dedicated dual-CPU PostgreSQL server, what is recommended?
>
>AMD64/Opteron or i386/Xeon?
>
>
AMD64/Opteron

>Linux or FreeBSD or _?_
>
>

This is a religious question :)

>I'm assuming hardware RAID 10 on 15k SCSI drives is fastest disk performance.
>
>
And many, many disks -- yes.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake


>Any hardware-comparison benchmarks out there showing the results for
>different PostgreSQL setups?
>
>Thanks!
>
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