Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.184]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01D189FC4EC for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 00:06:31 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 58577-03-6 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 00:06:27 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.224]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E4599FB4E0 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 00:02:18 -0300 (ADT) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 68so241728wri for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:02:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.162.5 with SMTP id k5mr2259246wfe.1193871823054; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:03:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.223.11 with HTTP; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:03:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9dd2faa40710311603w357d8e4chc7affa95aa5d405f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:03:43 -0400 From: "Ericson Smith" To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Hardware for PostgreSQL In-Reply-To: <4728B341.EE98.0025.0@wicourts.gov> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1193849108.591961.103570@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> <4728B341.EE98.0025.0@wicourts.gov> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200711/1 X-Sequence-Number: 27416 > > Who has built the biggest baddest Pg server out there and what do you > > use? In my last job we had a 360GB database running on a 8 way opteron with 32 Gigs of ram. Two of those beasts connected to a SAN for hot failover purposes. We did not have much web traffic, but tons of update/insert traffic, millions per day actually on pretty hefty tables (column wise). - Ericson Smith http://www.funadvice.com