From: Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com>
To: Zydoon <fzied@planet.tn>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: scaling up postgres
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:28:49 -0500
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On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 16:47, Zydoon wrote:
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> Thank you for sharing this.
> Coming back to my problem :) A very faithful partner accepted to
> gracefully borrow us 3 Pseries (bi-ppc + 2G RAM not more). with linux on
> them.
> Now I'm trying to make my tests, and I'm not that sure I will make the
> switch to the PSeries, since my dual xeon with 4 G RAM can handle 3500
> concurrent postmasters consuming 3.7 G of the RAM. I cannot reach this
> number on the PSeries with 2 G.
>
> can someone give me advice ?
> BTW, I promise, at the end of my tests, I'll publish my report.
Search the performance archives for the last 4 or 5 months for PPC /
pseries machines.
You'll find a very long thread about the disappointing performance the
tester got with a rather expensive P Series machine. And his happy
ending of testing on an Opteron machine.
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