From: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com>
Cc: steve.poe@gmail.com
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Which processor runs better for Postgresql?
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:44:17 -0700
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Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 13:02, Steve Poe wrote:
>> I have a client who is running Postgresql 7.4.x series database
>> (required to use 7.4.x). They are planning an upgrade to a new server.
>> They are insistent on Dell.
>
> Do they have a logical reason for this, or is it mostly hand-waving?
They probably do. They have probably standardized on Dell hardware. It
is technically a dumb reason, but from a business standpoint it makes sense.
My
> experience has been hand waving. Last company I was at, the CIO bragged
> about having saved a million a year on server by going with Dell. His
> numbers were made up, and, in fact, we spent a large portion of each
> week babysitting those god awful 2600 series machines with adaptec cards
> and the serverworks chipset. And they were slow compared to anything
> else with similar specs.
You can get extremely competitive quotes from IBM or HP as long as you
say, "You are competing against Dell".
> Dells tend to perform poorly, period. They choose low end parts (the
> 2600's Serverworks chipset is widely regarded as one of the slowest
> chipset for the P-IV there is.) and then mucking around with the BIOS of
> the add in cards to make them somewhat stable with their dodgy hardware.
I can confirm this.
>> I am hoping the client is willing to wait for Dell to ship a AMD
>> Opeteron-based server.
Tell them to go with an HP DL 385. They will be much happier.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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