From: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
To: Dave Cramer <pg@fastcrypt.com>
Cc: Luke Lonergan <llonergan@greenplum.com>
Cc: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
Cc: Joshua Marsh <icub3d@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Hardware/OS recommendations for large databases (
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:22:41 +0000
Message-ID: <437DD5A1.1090605@archonet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0F3B99E2-4575-42B8-8AAC-3FE4B231348C@fastcrypt.com>
References: <BFA2AFBA.13FC4%llonergan@greenplum.com>
<0F3B99E2-4575-42B8-8AAC-3FE4B231348C@fastcrypt.com>
Dave Cramer wrote:
>
> On 18-Nov-05, at 1:07 AM, Luke Lonergan wrote:
>
>> Postgres + Any x86 CPU from 2.4GHz up to Opteron 280 is CPU bound after
>> 110MB/s of I/O. This is true of Postgres 7.4, 8.0 and 8.1.
>>
>> A $1,000 system with one CPU and two SATA disks in a software RAID0 will
>> perform exactly the same as a $80,000 system with 8 dual core CPUs
>> and the
>> world's best SCSI RAID hardware on a large database for decision support
>> (what the poster asked about).
>
>
> Now there's an interesting line drawn in the sand. I presume you have
> numbers to back this up ?
>
> This should draw some interesting posts.
Well, I'm prepared to swap Luke *TWO* $1000 systems for one $80,000
system if he's got one going :-)
--
Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
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