Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 18:04:01 -0400
From: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
To: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
Cc: David Levy <dvid.levy@gmail.com>,
  pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Best OS for Postgres 8.2
Message-Id: <20070507180401.033fbc38.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
In-Reply-To: <463FA136.3030204@commandprompt.com>
References: <1178574927.533849.90730@e51g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>
	<463FA136.3030204@commandprompt.com>
Organization: Collaborative Fusion
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

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
Phone: 412-422-3463x4023