Thread: Performance on AIX

Hi all,

At Bull company, we want to answer a call for tender from a large
company. And we are asked for information about PostgreSQL performance
under AIX on Power 7 servers.

By chance, has someone some data about this ?
Has someone performed a benchmark using AIX quite recently ?

Are there any reasons for having performance level significantly
different between AIX and, let say, Linux, on a given platform ?

Thanks by advance for any help.

Philippe BEAUDOIN

On 03/19/2011 04:00 AM, phb07 wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> At Bull company, we want to answer a call for tender from a large company. And we are asked for information about
PostgreSQLperformance under AIX on Power 7 servers. 
>
> By chance, has someone some data about this ?
> Has someone performed a benchmark using AIX quite recently ?
>
> Are there any reasons for having performance level significantly different between AIX and, let say, Linux, on a
givenplatform ? 
>
> Thanks by advance for any help.
>
> Philippe BEAUDOIN
>
>
Dunno, never gotten to play with AIX or a Power 7... If you sent me one I'd be more than happy to benchmark it and send
itback :-) 

Or, more seriously, even remote ssh would do.

-Andy

Phillippe,

> At Bull company, we want to answer a call for tender from a large
> company. And we are asked for information about PostgreSQL performance
> under AIX on Power 7 servers.

Afilias runs PostgreSQL on AIX.  I don't know the architecture, though.
 Or what they think of it as a platform.

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