Re: Question on Opteron performance

From: Stephen Robert Norris <srn(at)commsecure(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Joseph Shraibman <jks(at)selectacast(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Question on Opteron performance
Date: 2004-03-09 03:55:39
Message-ID: 1078804538.30585.7.camel@ws12.commsecure.com.au
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On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 14:50, Joseph Shraibman wrote:
> Stephen Robert Norris wrote:
>
> >
> > Is this true? Did they really double the size of the memory bus, or is
> > it a case of 4 CPUs fighting for the same memory bandwidth that 2 had
> > before?
> >
> Opertons have built in memory controllers so they scale better than
> intel chips. See http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.html?i=1982

I didn't realise that. Thanks for the pointer. We're going to be buying
some more servers soon, I should look at Opterons I guess...

Stephen

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