From: "Carlo Stonebanks" <stonec.register@sympatico.ca>
To: "'James Mansion'" <james@mansionfamily.plus.com>
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Subject: Re: Performance on 8CPU's and 32GB of RAM
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 19:18:40 -0400
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Wow - it's nice to hear someone say that... out loud.

Thanks, you gave me hope!

-----Original Message-----
From: James Mansion [mailto:james@mansionfamily.plus.com] 
Sent: September 6, 2007 4:55 PM
To: Carlo Stonebanks
Cc: Scott Marlowe; Alvaro Herrera; pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Performance on 8CPU's and 32GB of RAM

Carlo Stonebanks wrote:
> Isn't it just easier to assume that Windows Server can't do anything
right?
> ;-)
>
>   
Well, avoiding the ;-) - people do, and its remarkably foolish of them.  Its
a long-standing whinge that many people with a UNIX-background seem to
just assume that Windows sucks, but you could run 40,000 sockets from a
single Win32 process for a while and some well-known UNIX systems would
still struggle to do this, libevent or no.  Admitedly, the way a Win32
app is architected would be rather different from a typical POSIX one.

Windows has been a cheap target bt its remarkably adequate and the
TPC results speak for themselves.