Re: Best OS for Postgres 8.2

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: David Levy <dvid(dot)levy(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Best OS for Postgres 8.2
Date: 2007-05-07 21:59:18
Message-ID: 463FA136.3030204@commandprompt.com
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David Levy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am about to order a new server for my Postgres cluster. I will
> probably get a Dual Xeon Quad Core instead of my current Dual Xeon.
> Which OS would you recommend to optimize Postgres behaviour (i/o
> access, multithreading, etc) ?
>
> I am hesitating between Fedora Core 6, CentOS and Debian. Can anyone
> help with this ?

Well you just described three linux distributions, which is hardly a
question about which OS to use ;). I would stick with the long supported
versions of Linux, thus CentOS 5, Debian 4, Ubuntu Dapper.

Joshua D. Drake

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