| From: | Péter Kovács <peter(dot)kovacs(at)chemaxon(dot)hu> |
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| To: | Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Bart McFarling <bartm(at)iilogistics(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD |
| Date: | 2006-11-12 11:01:06 |
| Message-ID: | 4556FEF2.5050509@chemaxon.hu |
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Richard Huxton wrote:
> Bart McFarling wrote:
>> We are installing a new Postgresql server, it will not run anything else
>> but postgresql. We are currently looking at moving from a RHEL 4.0
>> system to FreeBSD.
>> Does one OS offer better performace over the other when running
>> postgresql?
>
> I'd guess the crucial thing will be:
> 1. Your experience in admin-ing each.
> 2. Hardware support for each.
>
> Some theoretical advantage isn't any use if your RAID array has poor
> drivers on Linux or you don't know how to tune Free-BSD.
Interesting. Instinctively, I'd have thought that, being more
main-stream, Linux has a better supply of drivers than Free-BSD. Have
you had any experience with Linux RAID drivers being poorer than Free BSD's?
P.
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