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 ED2BB11F6AB1 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2006 04:29:08 -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 73726-02 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2006 04:28:51 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from asgard1.americatelsal.com (asgard2.americatelsal.com [200.13.161.7]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5216411F6ABD for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2006 04:28:49 -0300 (ADT) Received: (qmail 4705 invoked from network); 6 Apr 2006 07:50:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.10.124?) (200.13.161.68) by asgard1.americatelsal.com with SMTP; 6 Apr 2006 07:50:45 -0000 Message-ID: <4434C419.3080709@123.com.sv> Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 01:32:41 -0600 From: Miguel User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Kirkwood CC: Leigh Dyer , Luke Lonergan , "Juan Casero (FL FLC)" , Josh Berkus , pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Sun Fire T2000 and PostgreSQL 8.1.3 References: <44349D44.10902@eclinic.com.au> <4434B8E4.8010208@paradise.net.nz> In-Reply-To: <4434B8E4.8010208@paradise.net.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.406 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.406] X-Spam-Score: 0.406 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200604/98 X-Sequence-Number: 18182 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