Received: from localhost (maia-4.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E83439FB97F for ; Tue, 8 May 2007 06:48:12 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 49731-04 for ; Tue, 8 May 2007 06:48:09 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from cassarossa.samfundet.no (cassarossa.samfundet.no [129.241.93.19]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F8299FB915 for ; Tue, 8 May 2007 06:48:08 -0300 (ADT) Received: from trofast.ipv6.sesse.net ([2001:700:300:1803:20e:cff:fe36:a766] helo=trofast.sesse.net) by cassarossa.samfundet.no with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HlMIf-00016U-Uj for pgsql-performance@postgresql.org; Tue, 08 May 2007 11:48:06 +0200 Received: from sesse by trofast.sesse.net with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HlMIg-0000kc-00 for ; Tue, 08 May 2007 11:48:06 +0200 Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 11:48:06 +0200 From: "Steinar H. Gunderson" To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Best OS for Postgres 8.2 Message-ID: <20070508094806.GA2838@uio.no> Mail-Followup-To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org References: <1178574927.533849.90730@e51g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> <463FA136.3030204@commandprompt.com> <20070507180401.033fbc38.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <463FA4B0.7020006@commandprompt.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <463FA4B0.7020006@commandprompt.com> X-Operating-System: Linux 2.6.20.4 on a x86_64 X-Message-Flag: Outlook? --> http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200705/94 X-Sequence-Number: 24484 On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:14:08PM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > It is my understanding (and I certainly could be wrong) that FreeBSD > doesn't handle SMP nearly as well as Linux (and Linux not as well as > Solaris). I'm not actually sure about the last part. There are installations as big as 1024 CPUs that run Linux -- most people won't need that, but it's probably an indicator that eight cores should run OK :-) /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/