X-Original-To: pgsql-performance-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D8D053379 for ; Sat, 7 May 2005 18:00:43 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 85059-05 for ; Sat, 7 May 2005 21:00:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from davinci.ethosmedia.com (server227.ethosmedia.com [209.128.84.227]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DEA3534DD for ; Sat, 7 May 2005 18:00:38 -0300 (ADT) X-EthosMedia-Virus-Scanned: no infections found Received: from [63.195.55.98] (account josh@agliodbs.com HELO spooky) by davinci.ethosmedia.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with ESMTP id 7334290; Sat, 07 May 2005 14:02:40 -0700 From: Josh Berkus Organization: Aglio Database Solutions To: Andrew Sullivan Subject: Re: Whence the Opterons? Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 14:00:34 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org References: <1115415551.427be3ffe44c8@webmail.telus.net> <20050507145746.GB15586@phlogiston.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20050507145746.GB15586@phlogiston.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200505071400.35282.josh@agliodbs.com> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.014 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=AWL X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200505/72 X-Sequence-Number: 12236 A- > On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 02:39:11PM -0700, Mischa Sandberg wrote: > > IBM, Sun and HP have their fairly pricey Opteron systems. > > We've had some quite good experiences with the HP boxes. They're not > cheap, it's true, but boy are they sweet. Question, though: is HP still using their proprietary RAID card? And, if so, have they fixed its performance problems? -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco