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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 23:24:44 +0200
From: Zydoon <fzied@planet.tn>
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Subject: Re: scaling up postgres
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Gavin Hamill wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:28:49 -0500
> Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com> wrote:
> 
>> Search the performance archives for the last 4 or 5 months for PPC /
>> pseries machines.
>>
>> You'll find a very long thread about the disappointing performance the
>> tester got with a rather expensive P Series machine.  And his happy
>> ending of testing on an Opteron machine.
> 
> Amen, brother :)
> 
> We hoped throwing a silly pSeries 650 would solve all our problems. Boy
> were we wrong... a world of pain...
> 
> Don't go there - just buy an Opteron system - if you're talking about
> IBM big iron, a decent Opteron will cost you about as much as a couple
> of compilers and an on-site visit from IBM...
> 
> Cheers,
> Gavin.
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Things cannot be clearer :)
I really know that opterons are the best I can have.
But for now I have to publish the results Sunday 25th on either the
xeons or the PPCs.
Tomorrow I'll conduct a deeper test, and come back.
Cheers.

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Zied Fakhfakh
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