Message-ID: <463FA136.3030204@commandprompt.com>
Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 14:59:18 -0700
From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: David Levy <dvid.levy@gmail.com>
CC: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Best OS for Postgres 8.2
References: <1178574927.533849.90730@e51g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>
In-Reply-To: <1178574927.533849.90730@e51g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

David Levy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am about to order a new server for my Postgres cluster. I will
> probably get a Dual Xeon Quad Core instead of my current Dual Xeon.
> Which OS would you recommend to optimize Postgres behaviour (i/o
> access, multithreading, etc) ?
> 
> I am hesitating between Fedora Core 6, CentOS and Debian. Can anyone
> help with this ?

Well you just described three linux distributions, which is hardly a 
question about which OS to use ;). I would stick with the long supported 
versions of Linux, thus CentOS 5, Debian 4, Ubuntu Dapper.

Joshua D. Drake


> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
> TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives?
> 
>                http://archives.postgresql.org
>