X-Original-To: pgsql-performance-postgresql.org@postgresql.org Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD6E09FA5E9 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 04:28:19 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 86756-02 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 04:28:10 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from mx00.ext.bfk.de (mx00.ext.bfk.de [217.29.46.125]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F6219FA374 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 04:28:09 -0300 (ADT) Received: from fweimer by bfk.de with local id 1G7ofd-0007KA-4N; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 09:28:05 +0200 To: Arjen van der Meijden Cc: Merlin Moncure , Jonathan Ballet , pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Performances with new Intel Core* processors References: <44CDFD44.8080307@multani.info> <44CE3023.3020402@tweakers.net> From: Florian Weimer Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 09:28:05 +0200 In-Reply-To: <44CE3023.3020402@tweakers.net> (Arjen van der Meijden's message of "Mon, 31 Jul 2006 18:30:27 +0200") Message-ID: <8264hchq4a.fsf@mid.bfk.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests= X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200608/3 X-Sequence-Number: 20188 * Arjen van der Meijden: > For a database system, however, processors hardly ever are the main > bottleneck, are they? Not directly, but the choice of processor influences which chipsets/mainboards are available, which in turn has some impact on the number of RAM slots. (According to our hardware supplier, beyound 8 GB, the price per GB goes up sharply.) Unfortunately, it seems that the Core 2 Duo mainboards do not change that much in this area. -- Florian Weimer BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Durlacher Allee 47 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76131 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99