Thread: opportunity to benchmark a quad core Xeon

opportunity to benchmark a quad core Xeon

From
Jeff Frost
Date:
I have the opportunity to benchmark a system is based on Supermicro 6015B-8V.
It has 2x Quad Xeon E5320 1.86GHZ, 4GB DDR2 533, 1x 73GB 10k SCSI.

http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/6015/SYS-6015B-8V.cfm

We can add more RAM and drives for testing purposes.  Can someone suggest what
benchmarks with what settings would be desirable to see how this system
performs.  I don't believe I've seen any postgres benchmarks done on a quad
xeon yet.

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Re: opportunity to benchmark a quad core Xeon

From
Arjen van der Meijden
Date:
On 16-12-2006 4:24 Jeff Frost wrote:
> We can add more RAM and drives for testing purposes.  Can someone
> suggest what benchmarks with what settings would be desirable to see how
> this system performs.  I don't believe I've seen any postgres benchmarks
> done on a quad xeon yet.

We've done our "standard" benchmark on a dual X5355:
http://tweakers.net/reviews/661

Verdict is that for a price/performance-ratio you're better off with a
5160, but in absolute performance it does win.

Best regards,

Arjen

Re: opportunity to benchmark a quad core Xeon

From
Jeff Frost
Date:
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Arjen van der Meijden wrote:

> On 16-12-2006 4:24 Jeff Frost wrote:
>> We can add more RAM and drives for testing purposes.  Can someone suggest
>> what benchmarks with what settings would be desirable to see how this
>> system performs.  I don't believe I've seen any postgres benchmarks done on
>> a quad xeon yet.
>
> We've done our "standard" benchmark on a dual X5355:
> http://tweakers.net/reviews/661
>
> Verdict is that for a price/performance-ratio you're better off with a 5160,
> but in absolute performance it does win.
>

Arjen,

Have you guys run your benchmark on a quad opteron board yet?  I'm curious how
the dual quad core Intels compare to quad dual core opteron.

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Jeff Frost, Owner     <jeff@frostconsultingllc.com>
Frost Consulting, LLC     http://www.frostconsultingllc.com/
Phone: 650-780-7908    FAX: 650-649-1954