Re: Best OS for Postgres 8.2

From: david(at)lang(dot)hm
To: Chris <dmagick(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: David Levy <dvid(dot)levy(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Best OS for Postgres 8.2
Date: 2007-05-08 00:53:29
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.64.0705071752270.24680@asgard.lang.hm
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On Tue, 8 May 2007, Chris wrote:

> 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 ?
>
> Use the one you're most comfortable with.
>
> I don't think you'll notice *that* much difference between linux systems for
> performance - but whether you're comfortable using any of them will make a
> difference in managing it in general.

the tuneing that you do (both of the OS and of postgres) will make more
of a difference then anything else.

David Lang

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