| From: | Mario Splivalo <mario(dot)splivalo(at)mobart(dot)hr> |
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| To: | "Steinar H(dot) Gunderson" <sgunderson(at)bigfoot(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: scaling up postgres |
| Date: | 2006-06-11 21:42:20 |
| Message-ID: | 1150062140.23423.0.camel@localhost.localdomain |
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On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 11:43 +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 10:31:03AM +0100, fzied(at)planet(dot)tn wrote:
> > I do have 2 identical beasts (4G - biproc Xeon 3.2 - 2 Gig NIC)
> > One beast will be apache, and the other will be postgres.
> > I'm using httperf/autobench for measurments and the best result I can get
> > is that my system can handle a trafiic of almost 1600 New con/sec.
>
> What version of PostgreSQL? (8.1 is better than 8.0 is much better than 7.4.)
> Have you remembered to turn HT off? Have you considered Opterons instead of
> Xeons? (The Xeons generally scale bad with PostgreSQL.) What kind of queries
Could you point out to some more detailed reading on why Xeons are
poorer choice than Opterons when used with PostgreSQL?
Mario
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