Re: Whence the Opterons?

From: Jeff Frost <jeff(at)frostconsultingllc(dot)com>
To: John A Meinel <john(at)arbash-meinel(dot)com>
Cc: Anjan Dave <adave(at)vantage(dot)com>, Geoffrey <esoteric(at)3times25(dot)net>, Mischa Sandberg <mischa(dot)sandberg(at)telus(dot)net>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Whence the Opterons?
Date: 2005-05-09 17:08:27
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.62.0505091007540.14627@discord.dyndns.org
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On Mon, 9 May 2005, John A Meinel wrote:

> Well, I'm speaking more from what I remember reading, than personal
> testing. Probably 50% is too high, but I thought I remembered it being
> more general than just specific cases.

Anadtech had a benchmark here:

http://www.anandtech.com/linux/showdoc.aspx?i=2163&p=2

It's a little old, as it's listing an Opteron 150 vs 3.6 Xeon, but it does
show that the opteron comes in almost twice as fast as the Xeon doing
Postgres.

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