| From: | Rod Taylor <pg(at)rbt(dot)ca> |
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| To: | Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Anjan Dave <adave(at)vantage(dot)com>, Chris Ruprecht <chris(at)ruprecht(dot)org>, fred(at)redhotpenguin(dot)com, William Yu <wyu(at)talisys(dot)com>, Postgresql Performance <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Scaling further up |
| Date: | 2004-03-02 22:56:32 |
| Message-ID: | 1078268191.39213.159.camel@jester |
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> For speed, the X86 32 and 64 bit architectures seem to be noticeable
> faster than Sparc. However, running Linux or BSD on Sparc make them
> pretty fast too, but you lose the fault tolerant support for things like
> hot swappable CPUs or memory.
Agreed.. You can get a Quad Opteron with 16GB memory for around 20K.
Grab 3, a cheap SAN and setup a little master/slave replication with
failover (how is Slony coming?), and you're all set.
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