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 CFAED9FB24D for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:27:44 -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 82268-03 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:27:36 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.232]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 930799FB1BF for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:27:35 -0300 (ADT) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id t13so604966wxc for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:27:34 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=rAVrfEBT+Dl2U/yssc0E+1cYEoVgFSoMOoPL7GiomgxeI0dVA9VHkJ9oqyj68RbF+21ssVynfkAJHyp9DlSKYySFQn0TBhpjaJeLkBifSomrzHw79VWMGMizes/g0NPsrE5Ept97BH8m7ZX03SdEkUH20EUr9S09kfhc9hvgryA= Received: by 10.70.69.2 with SMTP id r2mr3042015wxa; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:27:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.38.5 with HTTP; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:27:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 21:27:34 +0200 From: "Claus Guttesen" To: "Jeff Davis" Subject: Re: PowerEdge 2950 questions Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org In-Reply-To: <1156282448.15743.88.camel@dogma.v10.wvs> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1156282448.15743.88.camel@dogma.v10.wvs> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.634 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=AWL, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE, SPF_PASS X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200608/392 X-Sequence-Number: 20577 > I am looking at setting up two general-purpose database servers, > replicated with Slony. Each server I'm looking at has the following > specs: > > Dell PowerEdge 2950 > - 2 x Dual Core Intel(r) Xeon(r) 5130, 4MB Cache, 2.00GHz, 1333MHZ FSB > - 4GB RAM > - PERC 5/i, x6 Backplane, Integrated Controller Card (256MB battery- > backed cache) > - 6 x 73GB, SAS, 3.5-inch, 15K RPM Hard Drive arranged in RAID 10 Has anyone done any performance-comparison cpu-wise between the above mentioned cpu and an opteron 270/280? Alot of attention seems to be spent on the disks and the raid-controller which is somewhat important by itself, but this has been covered in numorous threads other places. regards Claus