>>>>> "SW" == Steve Wolfe <nw@codon.com> writes:
SW> However, after all that's already been done, I'm not optimistic that it's
SW> going to preclude needing the new server. I'm just surprised that nobody
SW> seems to have used PostgreSQL on a quad-Opteron before!
I think people saturate the disks before the CPUs. I know I certainly
do, even with 4GB RAM and a fair number of shared buffers. Dual CPUs
are more then plenty for our usage patterns.
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