Mario Splivalo wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 11:43 +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 10:31:03AM +0100, fzied@planet.tn wrote:
>>> I do have 2 identical beasts (4G - biproc Xeon 3.2 - 2 Gig NIC)
>>> One beast will be apache, and the other will be postgres.
>>> I'm using httperf/autobench for measurments and the best result I can get
>>> is that my system can handle a trafiic of almost 1600 New con/sec.
>> What version of PostgreSQL? (8.1 is better than 8.0 is much better than 7.4.)
>> Have you remembered to turn HT off? Have you considered Opterons instead of
>> Xeons? (The Xeons generally scale bad with PostgreSQL.) What kind of queries
>
> Could you point out to some more detailed reading on why Xeons are
> poorer choice than Opterons when used with PostgreSQL?
It isn't just PostgreSQL. It is any database. Opterons can move memory
and whole lot faster then Xeons.
Joshua D. Drake
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