Received: from localhost (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D9019FBA85 for ; Mon, 7 May 2007 22:13:59 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 35206-10 for ; Mon, 7 May 2007 22:13:50 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.177]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B14A39FB997 for ; Mon, 7 May 2007 22:13:55 -0300 (ADT) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id a73so1399966pye for ; Mon, 07 May 2007 18:13:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=BctH9zy+tJB6PtdlDv+TRIwADUzI5Ny2crCKuJhmukfK0vtSoT8qS/DtSDfym5iYDuqpbfEGNvs8sup3OYev20lI1Ob2vmmvWOQ5M303gnUUTrkhnUO1CIioz22QWQiIV0Z+VFhVTLCfKpRXxM2HHZZXvl74JTqRCFdg4xAjOKE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=kQZc0f2A0tqs1V98XZtVJYDsdzpYTUzsCcZJKUsIGobfDbFjMR7xh1udCS0Ln4VJicZ8R1hb+QFZJGKyv2PcA6IYozVE1Mis+CguXRRXty3QwFTEONpKIk/ZfsVLLMBQMxr7wjidYOjNXCVP/uSBZ9mDNB5d/KXT95hfoKjMzS0= Received: by 10.65.252.13 with SMTP id e13mr11174182qbs.1178586834313; Mon, 07 May 2007 18:13:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.1.1.11? ( [203.217.18.65]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 8sm32133878nzn.2007.05.07.18.13.52; Mon, 07 May 2007 18:13:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <463FCF08.9090904@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 11:14:48 +1000 From: Chris User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: david@lang.hm CC: David Levy , pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Best OS for Postgres 8.2 References: <1178574927.533849.90730@e51g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> <463FC6F1.3030607@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200705/79 X-Sequence-Number: 24469 david@lang.hm wrote: > On Tue, 8 May 2007, Chris wrote: > >> 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 ? >> >> Use the one you're most comfortable with. >> >> I don't think you'll notice *that* much difference between linux >> systems for performance - but whether you're comfortable using any of >> them will make a difference in managing it in general. > > the tuneing that you do (both of the OS and of postgres) will make more > of a difference then anything else. Which is why it's best to know/understand the OS first ;) -- Postgresql & php tutorials http://www.designmagick.com/