From: M. D. <lists@turnkey.bz>
To: Claudio Freire <klaussfreire@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: hardware advice
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 13:40:01 -0600
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On 09/27/2012 01:22 PM, Claudio Freire wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 4:11 PM, M. D. <lists@turnkey.bz> wrote:
>> At this point I'm dealing with a fairly small database of 8 to 9 GB.
> ...
>> The on_hand lookup table
>> currently has 3 million rows after 4 years of data.
> ...
>> For both servers I'd have at least 32GB Ram and 4 Hard Drives in raid 10.
> For a 9GB database, that amount of RAM seams like overkill to me.
> Unless you expect to grow a lot faster than you've been growing, or
> perhaps your middle tier consumes a lot of those 32GB, I don't see the
> point there.
>
The middle tier does caching and can easily take up to 10GB of RAM,
therefore I'm buying more.
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