X-Original-To: pgsql-performance-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5019D719A for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:58:55 -0400 (AST) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 43077-05 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 04:58:54 +0000 (GMT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from stark.xeocode.com (stark.xeocode.com [216.58.44.227]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D6F5DB7B0 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:58:53 -0400 (AST) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=stark.xeocode.com) by stark.xeocode.com with smtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1EcyKj-00071r-00; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 23:58:45 -0500 To: Joshua Marsh Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Hardware/OS recommendations for large databases ( References: <3E37B936B592014B978C4415F90D662D01995F7B@MI8NYCMAIL06.Mi8.com> <33c6269f0511152115v1a34ab81j30f1f5df5a6c6956@mail.gmail.com> <33c6269f0511171148q7ea67482xd595ea5717956aa2@mail.gmail.com> <38242de90511171258v22f334f3ua474a8aa99bdc29d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <38242de90511171258v22f334f3ua474a8aa99bdc29d@mail.gmail.com> From: Greg Stark Organization: The Emacs Conspiracy; member since 1992 Date: 17 Nov 2005 23:58:45 -0500 Message-ID: <873blur1q2.fsf@stark.xeocode.com> Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.000] X-Spam-Score: 0 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200511/343 X-Sequence-Number: 15600 Joshua Marsh writes: > We all want our systems to be CPU bound, but it's not always possible. Sure it is, let me introduce you to my router, a 486DX100... Ok, I guess that wasn't very helpful, I admit. -- greg