Re: Which Linux Distribution

* Alfred Perlstein <bright(at)wintelcom(dot)net> [001123 15:04] wrote:
> * Alfred Perlstein <bright(at)wintelcom(dot)net> [001123 14:33] wrote:
> > * Timothy J Hitchens <tim(at)hitcho(dot)com(dot)au> [001123 13:35] wrote:
> > >
> > > That is 4 Million Queries per Second which is 14 Billion 400 Million per
> > > hour.
> > >
> > > This may sound a little big but this is what we will be launching on the 1st
> > > December 2000 using postgresql and php.
> >
> > What platform is this going to be on? You will not be able to do
> > 4 million queries per second with Postgresql on a PC platform.
>
> You do realize that even a 800Mhz Pentium that the math makes
> this practically impossible:
>
> 800Mhz == 8,000,000 cycles per second
> divided by 4,000,000 queries per second
> = 2 cycles per query

er, turkey makes me a bit groggy, that should have been:

800,000,000
4,000,000

still about 200 cycles per query. I don't see how that's
possible.

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