X-Original-To: pgsql-performance-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E21EA11F621A for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2006 01:16:43 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 31304-06 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2006 01:16:40 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr4.postgresql.org (svr4.postgresql.org [66.98.251.159]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E22511F6267 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2006 01:16:40 -0300 (ADT) Received: from brmea-mail-1.sun.com (brmea-mail-1.Sun.COM [192.18.98.31]) by svr4.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 325635AF88B for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2006 04:16:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from phys-d3-ha21sca-1 ([129.145.155.163]) by brmea-mail-1.sun.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id k364GJGv003035 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2006 22:16:34 -0600 (MDT) Received: from conversion-daemon.ha21sca-mail1.sfbay.sun.com by ha21sca-mail1.sfbay.sun.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.24 (built Dec 19 2003)) id <0IXA00I018QOFR@ha21sca-mail1.sfbay.sun.com> (original mail from Robert.Lor@Sun.COM) for pgsql-performance@postgresql.org; Wed, 05 Apr 2006 21:16:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [129.150.12.119] (vpn-129-150-12-119.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.150.12.119]) by ha21sca-mail1.sfbay.sun.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.24 (built Dec 19 2003)) with ESMTP id <0IXA002H6971BA@ha21sca-mail1.sfbay.sun.com>; Wed, 05 Apr 2006 21:16:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 21:15:45 -0700 From: Robert Lor Subject: Re: Sun Fire T2000 and PostgreSQL 8.1.3 In-reply-to: <7583B3F1891CC0429FA4A44952AA539C66FA7D@wfm-exchprd2.wfm.pvt> To: "Juan Casero (FL FLC)" Cc: josh@agliodbs.com, pgsql-performance@postgresql.org, Luke Lonergan Message-id: <443495F1.2010302@sun.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20050913 References: <7583B3F1891CC0429FA4A44952AA539C66FA7D@wfm-exchprd2.wfm.pvt> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.121 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.120, UNPARSEABLE_RELAY=0.001] X-Spam-Score: 0.121 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200604/88 X-Sequence-Number: 18172 Juan Casero (FL FLC) wrote: >I can't fully realize >the performance benefits of the T2000 server unless and until I start >getting lots of people hitting the database server with requests. This >doesn't happen right now. It may happen later on as I write more >applications for the server but I am looking to see if the performance >benefit we can get from this server is worth the price tag right now. >That is why I am looking for ways to tweak postgres on it. > > > If you have a need to use the system for other purposes with the extra CPU bandwidth, you can partition it using the Solaris Containers feature. Doing this will give you room to grow your DB usage later and make full use of the system now. Just a thought! Regards, Robert