Re: System Requirement

From: hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Saranya Sivakumar <sarlavk(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: pgsqlperform <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: System Requirement
Date: 2005-06-14 08:32:06
Message-ID: 9e4684ce050614013232f9dbbd@mail.gmail.com
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On 6/13/05, Saranya Sivakumar <sarlavk(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
> 2 x 2.4 Ghz Intel Xeon CPU with HT(4 virtual CPUs)

switch to amd opteron (dual cpu). for the same price you get 2x
performance - comparing to xeon boxes.

> RAM - 1GB

you'd definitelly could use more ram. the more the better.

> HDD - 34GB SCSI

is it one drive of 34G? if yes, buy another one and setup raid1 over
them. should boost performance as well.

> Production DB size: 10.89 GB

not much. you could even consider buing 12 or 16g of ram to make it
fit in memory.

depesz

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