Re: Value of Quad vs. Dual Processor machine

we are looking at Xeon, We are currently running it on a quad sun v880
compiled to be 64bit and have been getting dreadful performance. I don't
think we really have much to gain from going 64bit.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Johnson" <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net>
To: "PgSQL Performance ML" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 8:24 PM
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Value of Quad vs. Dual Processor machine

> On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 17:32, Chris Field wrote:
> > We are getting ready to spec out a new machine and are wondering about
> > the wisdom of buying a quad versus a dual processor machine. Seing as
> > how postgres in not a threaded application, and this server will only be
> > used for log/transaction analysis (it will only ever have a few large
> > queries running). Is there any performance to be gained, and if so is
> > it worth the large cost? Any thoughts/experience are much
> > appreciated...
>
> Xeon or Opteron? The faster Opterons *really* blaze, especially
> in 64-bit mode. As others have said, though, RAM and I/O are most
> important.
>
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