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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:59:27 +0200
From: Arjen van der Meijden <acmmailing@tweakers.net>
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To: Hannes Dorbath <light@theendofthetunnel.de>
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Subject: Re: Opteron vs. Xeon "benchmark"
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Try the translation ;)

http://tweakers.net/reviews/646/13

On 22-9-2006 10:32 Hannes Dorbath wrote:
> A colleague pointed me to this site tomorrow:
> 
> http://tweakers.net/reviews/642/13
> 
> I can't read the language, so can't get a grip on what exactly the 
> "benchmark" was about.
> 
> Their diagrams show `Request per seconds'. What should that mean? How 
> many connections PG accepted per second? So they measured the OS fork 
> performance? Should that value be of any interrest? Anyone with heavy 
> OLTP workload will use persistent connections or a connection pool in 
> front.
> 
> Do they mean TPS? That woulnd't make much sense in a CPU benchmark, as 
> OLTP workload is typically limited by the disc subsystem.
> 
> Can someone enlighten me what this site is about?
> 
>