From: Miguel <mmiranda@123.com.sv>
To: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>
Cc: Leigh Dyer <leigh@eclinic.com.au>
Cc: Luke Lonergan <llonergan@greenplum.com>
Cc: Juan Casero (FL FLC) <Juan.Casero@wholefoods.com>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Sun Fire T2000 and PostgreSQL 8.1.3
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 01:32:41 -0600
Message-ID: <4434C419.3080709@123.com.sv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4434B8E4.8010208@paradise.net.nz>
References: <C059E6BF.20F70%llonergan@greenplum.com>
<44349D44.10902@eclinic.com.au>
<4434B8E4.8010208@paradise.net.nz>
Mark Kirkwood wrote:
>>
>>>> The newer Sun Opteron systems look nice too, but unless you're using
>>>> external storage, their little 2.5" hard drives may not be ideal.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes - but they end-of-lifed the V20z and V40z!
>>>
>> That's quite disappointing to hear -- our V40z isn't even six months
>> old! We're not a big company, so external storage solutions are
>> outside our price range, but we still wanted a nice brand-name box,
>> and the V40z was a great deal compared to smaller boxes like the HP
>> DL385.
>>
>>> One big problem with the sun line in general is the tiny internal
>>> storage
>>> capacity - already too small on the V40z at 5/6 drives, now
>>> ridiculous at 4
>>> SAS drives on the galaxy series.
>>
>>
>> I'm sure those little SAS drives would be great for web servers and
>> other non-IO-intensive tasks though -- I'd love to get some X4100s in
>> to replace our Poweredge 1750s for that. It's a smart move overall
>> IMHO, but it's certainly not great for database serving.
>>
>>
>
Excuse me for this off topic, but i notice that you are very excited
about the sun's hardware, what os do you install on them , slowlaris?,
has that os improved in some espectacular way that i should take a look
again?, i used it until solaris 9 and the performance was horrible.
im a happy freebsd user now (using hp and dell hardware though)
---
Miguel
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