From: | Marcelo Tada <marcelo(dot)tada(at)nube(dot)com(dot)br> |
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To: | "Juan Casero (FL FLC)" <Juan(dot)Casero(at)wholefoods(dot)com> |
Cc: | josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org, Luke Lonergan <llonergan(at)greenplum(dot)com> |
Subject: | Re: Sun Fire T2000 and PostgreSQL 8.1.3 |
Date: | 2006-04-06 01:11:32 |
Message-ID: | 44346AC4.1070801@nube.com.br |
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Juan, I think that AMD Opteron is more flex (OS and Hardware Upgrade)
and then, the best solution.¹
What are you think about the Sun Fire X64 X4200 Server?
Take a look in this analysis and performance benchmark².
Regards,
MTada
¹ http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdoc.aspx?i=2727&p=2
² http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdoc.aspx?i=2727&p=7
Juan Casero (FL FLC) wrote:
>I am evaluating this SunFire T2000 as a replacement for an Intel P3 1Ghz
>postgresql server. This intel server runs a retail reporting database
>on postgresql 8.1.3. I need to realize significant performance gains on
>T2000 server to justify the expense. So I need to tune the postgresql
>server as much as I can for it. Right now the operating system (solaris
>10) sees each thread as a single cpu and only allows each thread 4.16%
>of the available cpu resources for processing queries. Since postgresql
>is not multithreaded and since I cannot apparently break past the
>operating system imposed limits on a single thread I can't fully realize
>the performance benefits of the T2000 server unless and until I start
>getting lots of people hitting the database server with requests. This
>doesn't happen right now. It may happen later on as I write more
>applications for the server but I am looking to see if the performance
>benefit we can get from this server is worth the price tag right now.
>That is why I am looking for ways to tweak postgres on it.
>
>
>Thanks,
>Juan
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Josh Berkus [mailto:josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com]
>Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 6:02 PM
>To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
>Cc: Juan Casero (FL FLC); Luke Lonergan
>Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Sun Fire T2000 and PostgreSQL 8.1.3
>
>Juan,
>
>
>
>>When I hit
>>this pgsql on this laptop with a large query I can see the load spike
>>up really high on both of my virtual processors. Whatever, pgsql is
>>doing it looks like both cpu's are being used indepently.
>>
>>
>
>Nope, sorry, you're being decieved. Postgres is strictly one process,
>one
>query.
>
>You can use Bizgres MPP to achieve multithreading; it's proprietary and
>you have to pay for it. It does work well, though.
>
>More importantly, though, you haven't really explained why you care
>about multithreading.
>
>--
>--Josh
>
>Josh Berkus
>Aglio Database Solutions
>San Francisco
>
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