Received: from localhost (maia-1.hub.org [200.46.204.191]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 622829FB1E8 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:11:00 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.191]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 12868-03-2 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:10:47 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.176]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A626C9FBC71 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:10:47 -0300 (ADT) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id p76so850695pyb for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 04:10:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=QfYSo1AntnufVK36QtViYkLbjxEXt9Mkg0y11Wbf0b90Hvdk74KFTe72lo6wKJ5ljfUdMzh4gvLF1BnIDOh4EYoj0DuMf3No03dS287oiwQsiHtFbNlInLxghOvNWl8Aa445brPUhuXnd7PrhTbQWKRafA9A0N+FPK4J5fJUBZk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=qATxzyFsPsowl86oWb3gI0fVm5511oZUEAvlj83OBWiibxN3kNM7/zCijIxbBK6konvQIvSn5kVJpoc00GIK/IpRP5Gsua1WKPt4wEC15vZK4DJWbekfSXkeluYSluMdJ1o0zT56CEd3jlBEPOo07y8a/jtmZHtGzslgihlCKtY= Received: by 10.115.22.1 with SMTP id z1mr7294968wai.1182251445095; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 04:10:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.200.3 with HTTP; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 04:10:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:10:45 +0200 From: "Claus Guttesen" To: "christian.braun@tudor.lu" Subject: Re: Hardware suggestions Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200706/329 X-Sequence-Number: 25362 > At our institute we are currently establishing a small GIS working group. > The data storage for vector data should be the central PostGIS system. > Raster data will be held in file system. > Mostly the users are accessing the data base in read only mode. From the > client side there is not much write access this only will be done by the > admin of the system to load new datasets. A prototype is currently runnin= g > on an old desktop pc with ubuntu dapper - not very powerfull, of course! > We have about 10000 =80 to spend for a new server including the storage. = Do > you have any recommendations for us? When it comes to server-hardware I'd go for intel's dual-core (woodcrest) or quad-core. They seem to perform better atm. compared to opterons. --=20 regards Claus When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentlest gamester is the soonest winner. Shakespeare