From: | Tom Allison <tom(at)tacocat(dot)net> |
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To: | Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: When should I worry? |
Date: | 2007-06-12 10:04:35 |
Message-ID: | DADBE2E9-DE2F-45F9-809B-151A2562426C@tacocat.net |
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On Jun 12, 2007, at 12:00 AM, Greg Smith wrote:
>
> On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, Tom Allison wrote:
>
>> All of this was run on a Pentium II 450 MHz with 412MB RAM and a
>> software linear 0 pair or UDMA 66 7200RPM 8MB Cache drives (really
>> old) on seperate IDE channels with ReiserFS disk format.
>
> Sometimes it's not clear if someone can speed up what they're doing
> simply by using more expensive hardware. In your case, I think
> it's safe to say you've got quite a bit of margin for improvement
> that way when you run into a problem.
No doubt! But I think it's worth nothing how much performance I
*can* get out of such an old piece of hardware.
My other computer is a Cray. No, that's the bumper sticker on my car.
My other computer is an Athlong 64 2.?GHz with a single disk but less
RAM. It's a xen virtual machine that I'm renting, so increasing the
power of the machine is actually very easy to do, but not yet required.
But I was impressed with how well it works on such an old machine.
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