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From: Johan Segernäs <johan.segernas@foretagsuniversitetet.se>
To: 'Karel Zak' <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>
Cc: 'pgsql-admin@postgresql.org' <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: RE: Performance
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:21:56 +0100
Message-ID: <1AA3DCC66D03D740BE070FB8CB48D9A6D2AD@funsql.fun> (raw)

> On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, [iso-8859-1] Johan Segernäs wrote:
> > And running postgresql on a P133 with 64 meggs of RAM using 
> debian woody. 
> > How many users will that box be able to serve? 
> > 
> > I'm running apache/php on another machine and the database 
> will have 
> > questions and answers for some exams in it. Nothing hard, just text.
> 
>  Depends on:
> 
>  - RAM

64 MB EDO

>  - I/O operations (do you run UPDATE, INSERT very often?)

No, very seldom. It'll be for serving questions and check for the right
answer to the question. 
We'll only do INSERT/UPDATE when adding users, adding new questions and so
on.

>  - fsync() setting (-F or 7.1)

?

>  - size of DB
>  - size of data transfered between client-server
>  - number of used tables in typical query

As I said, it's gonna be for an exam-system with around 150 questions around
100 chars long. 
With answers for each and every one.

No big amount of data.

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