From: Decibel! <decibel@decibel.org>
To: Willo van der Merwe <willo@mirasol.co.za>
Cc: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Hardware spec
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:35:55 -0500
Message-ID: <20070911203554.GZ38801@decibel.org> (raw)
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On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 11:26:46AM +0200, Willo van der Merwe wrote:
> Richard Huxton wrote:
> >Willo van der Merwe wrote:
> >>Hi guys,
> >>
> >>I'm have the rare opportunity to spec the hardware for a new database
> >>server. It's going to replace an older one, driving a social networking
> >>web application. The current server (a quad opteron with 4Gb of RAM and
> >>80Gb fast SCSI RAID10) is coping with an average load of ranging between
> >>1.5 and 3.5.
> >>
> >>The new machine spec I have so far:
> >What's the limiting factor on your current machine - disk, memory, cpup?
> I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that I'm not sure. The reason we're
> changing machines is that we might be changing ISPs and we're renting /
> leasing the machines from the ISP.
Get yourself the ability to benchmark your application. This is
invaluable^W a requirement for any kind of performance tuning.
--
Decibel!, aka Jim Nasby decibel@decibel.org
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)
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