Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 13:36:05 +0200
From: hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz@depesz.com>
To: Poul Kristensen <bcc5226@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: The sizing of HW resources of a physical PG server
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On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 01:25:21PM +0200, Poul Kristensen wrote:
> Hi !
> 
> How to size a physical PG server?
> 
> What does a physical PG server like concerning HW resources?
> number of cpu's(cache L1 expensive I think, L2 and L3), RAM?

you have to know/understand how large your database, and its active set
will be, and how many queries you need to run concurrently/per-second.

once you have this information - you can establish some minimums.

Best regards,

depesz

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