Re: Linux vs FreeBSD

From: Steve Litt <slitt(at)troubleshooters(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD
Date: 2014-04-11 13:16:04
Message-ID: 20140411091604.48f962a8@mydesk
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On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 14:05:43 +0200
Alban Hertroys <haramrae(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> My advice to the OP:
>
> Install FreeBSD on a system to play around with, get a feel for how
> it works and whether you like it or not. See how it performs with
> Postgres on different file-systems; UFS2 or ZFS - UFS is the faster
> of the two, but ZFS makes up for that big time in maintainability if
> you provide it with enough memory. If you require locale-specific
> collations (native language specific sort ordering), check that it
> does what you expect.

Curious: Why not consider OpenBSD also?

SteveT

Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/
Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance

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