Re: Suggested HW for postgres ?

From: Joel Stevenson <joelstevenson(at)mac(dot)com>
To: weigelt(at)metux(dot)de, pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Suggested HW for postgres ?
Date: 2005-11-18 20:08:51
Message-ID: p06230902bfa3e4b7ce24@[192.168.0.9]
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-admin

At 8:05 PM +0100 11/18/05, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
>Hi folks,
>
>
>we're going to buy new hardware for an postgresql database server.
>High availability is important, so I'm thinking of an
>Athlon System w/ 2GB RAM and UW-SCSI RAID.
>
>But what hardware should I use ?
>And what RAID configuration would be the best ?
>

Check out the long-running (still going) thread on the pgsql-performance list:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2005-11/threads.php

A lot of great about HW/OS there. Of course it really comes down to
what you'll be using PG for.

In response to

Browse pgsql-admin by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Andrew Sullivan 2005-11-18 21:11:59 Re: fsm allocation
Previous Message Scott Marlowe 2005-11-18 19:50:07 Re: Suggested HW for postgres ?