| From: | Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au> |
| Cc: | Mark Mielke <mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Patvs <patvs(at)chello(dot)nl>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Six PostgreSQL questions from a pokerplayer |
| Date: | 2009-07-07 05:51:32 |
| Message-ID: | dcc563d10907062251q131827cdwa0e3bcb6c4b42085@mail.gmail.com |
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On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Craig
Ringer<craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au> wrote:
>
> Personally, I'd probably go 64-bit on any reasonably modern machine that
> could be expected to have more than 2 or 3 GB of RAM. Then again, I
> can't imagine willingly building a production database server for any
> non-trivial (ie > a couple of gigs) database with less than 8GB of RAM
> with RAM prices so absurdly low. Skip-lunch-to-afford-more-RAM low.
Exactly, I was pricing out a new db server at work, and the difference
in cost on a $7000 or so machine was something like $250 or so to go
from 16G to 32G of RAM.
I also can't imagine running a large pgsql server on windows, even 64
bit windows.
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