Re: 8 way Intel Xeon system - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Christopher Browne
Subject Re: 8 way Intel Xeon system
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In response to 8 way Intel Xeon system  ("Castle, Lindsay" <lindsay.castle@eds.com>)
Responses Re: 8 way Intel Xeon system
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After a long battle with technology,tomka@zeus.gau.hu (Tomka Gergely), an earthling, wrote:
> 2003-08-27 ragyogó napján Castle, Lindsay ezt üzente:
>> Perhaps some may say Linux isn't the best option for an 8 CPU
>> server but this is what I have to work with for reasons we won't
>> get into :-)
>
> This is not true, 2.4 series AFAIK run nicely on these monstrums. If
> you want some thrill, try 2.6-test series. Linux Is Good For You
> (tm) :)

The other "bleeding edge" that it'll be interesting to see, um,
"coagulate," is Dragonfly BSD, which plans to do some really
interesting SMP stuff as a fork of FreeBSD...
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