Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCBB2B5DBD6 for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 16:22:07 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 35362-06 for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 19:22:01 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from zeus.simkin.ca (zeus.simkin.ca [72.51.27.124]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 901C5B5DBE8 for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 16:22:01 -0300 (ADT) Received: from pc-1072.reinvent.com (office.reinvent.com [72.51.27.254]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by zeus.simkin.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 32BEB2702EF; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:22:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan Hodgson Organization: Simkin Network Consulting To: Richard Shaw Subject: Re: Rather large LA Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:21:59 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.6 (Linux/2.6.38-11-generic; KDE/4.6.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org References: <201109061207.56559.ahodgson@simkin.ca> <2E42166F-CB81-4926-B3A5-54E751739E13@aggress.net> In-Reply-To: <2E42166F-CB81-4926-B3A5-54E751739E13@aggress.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201109061221.59362.ahodgson@simkin.ca> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.404 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.504 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201109/68 X-Sequence-Number: 44844 On September 6, 2011 12:11:10 PM Richard Shaw wrote: > 24 :) > > 4 x Intel Xeon-NehalemEX E7540-HexCore [2GHz] > Nice box. Still I/O-bound, though. SSDs would help a lot, I would think.