Re: Linux ready for high-volume databases? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Maksim Likharev
Subject Re: Linux ready for high-volume databases?
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Msg-id 56510AAEF435D240958D1CE8C6B1770A016D2DF5@mailc03.aurigin.com
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In response to Linux ready for high-volume databases?  (Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>)
List pgsql-general
>Don't think of this as a troll, because I really don't know, even
>though I do know that MVS, OpenVMS & Solaris can.  (I won't even
>ask about toys like Windows and FreeBSD.)

What so toy in Windows?
With some experience on huge DBs,
one on Windows ( MS SQL 2K ) works x1.5/2 faster, than one on Linux/Sun
( pg 7.3.3 ).
Read-only transactions tho.

Is Linux ready for big dbs, I would say yes, with new kernel I say
definitely yes.


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