Re: PowerEdge 2950 questions

From: "Claus Guttesen" <kometen(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Jeff Davis" <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PowerEdge 2950 questions
Date: 2006-08-24 19:27:34
Message-ID: b41c75520608241227v66c4502bud6ded2838b248b48@mail.gmail.com
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> I am looking at setting up two general-purpose database servers,
> replicated with Slony. Each server I'm looking at has the following
> specs:
>
> Dell PowerEdge 2950
> - 2 x Dual Core Intel(r) Xeon(r) 5130, 4MB Cache, 2.00GHz, 1333MHZ FSB
> - 4GB RAM
> - PERC 5/i, x6 Backplane, Integrated Controller Card (256MB battery-
> backed cache)
> - 6 x 73GB, SAS, 3.5-inch, 15K RPM Hard Drive arranged in RAID 10

Has anyone done any performance-comparison cpu-wise between the above
mentioned cpu and an opteron 270/280?

Alot of attention seems to be spent on the disks and the
raid-controller which is somewhat important by itself, but this has
been covered in numorous threads other places.

regards
Claus

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