From: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
To: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
Cc: David Levy <dvid.levy@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Best OS for Postgres 8.2
Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 18:04:01 -0400
Message-ID: <20070507180401.033fbc38.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> (raw)
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<463FA136.3030204@commandprompt.com>
In response to "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>:
> David Levy wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am about to order a new server for my Postgres cluster. I will
> > probably get a Dual Xeon Quad Core instead of my current Dual Xeon.
> > Which OS would you recommend to optimize Postgres behaviour (i/o
> > access, multithreading, etc) ?
> >
> > I am hesitating between Fedora Core 6, CentOS and Debian. Can anyone
> > help with this ?
>
> Well you just described three linux distributions, which is hardly a
> question about which OS to use ;). I would stick with the long supported
> versions of Linux, thus CentOS 5, Debian 4, Ubuntu Dapper.
There used to be a prominent site that recommended FreeBSD for Postgres.
Don't know if that's still recommended or not -- but bringing it up is
likely to start a Holy War.
--
Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.
http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/
wmoran@collaborativefusion.com
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