From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
Cc: stange@rentec.com, Luke Lonergan <llonergan@greenplum.com>
Cc: Dave Cramer <pg@fastcrypt.com>
Cc: Joshua Marsh <icub3d@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Hardware/OS recommendations for large databases (
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 16:51:47 -0300
Message-ID: <20051121195147.GC26621@surnet.cl> (raw)
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Greg Stark wrote:
> I also fear that heading in that direction could push Postgres even further
> from the niche of software that works fine even on low end hardware into the
> realm of software that only works on high end hardware. It's already suffering
> a bit from that.
What's high end hardware for you? I do development on a Celeron 533
machine with 448 MB of RAM and I find it to work well (for a "slow"
value of "well", certainly.) If you're talking about embedded hardware,
that's another matter entirely and I don't think we really support the
idea of running Postgres on one of those things.
There's certainly true in that the memory requirements have increased a
bit, but I don't think it really qualifies as "high end" even on 8.1.
--
Alvaro Herrera Developer, http://www.PostgreSQL.org
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