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 0454E9FA13E for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:13:55 -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 22576-06 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:13:46 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from peufeu.com (boutiquenumerique.com [82.67.9.10]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34E889F9316 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:13:45 -0300 (ADT) Received: (qmail 14698 invoked from network); 13 Jun 2006 22:14:45 +0200 Received: from boutiquenumerique.com (HELO apollo13) (82.67.9.10) by boutiquenumerique.com with SMTP; 13 Jun 2006 22:14:45 +0200 To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: scaling up postgres References: <200606030931.k539V38Y007877@smtp2.planet.net.tn> <20060603094355.GA23297@uio.no> <1150062140.23423.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> <448D3B65.7090709@aeccom.com> <448DE0DB.1020107@planet.tn> <20060613192609.GX34196@pervasive.com> Message-ID: Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 22:14:44 +0200 From: PFC Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=utf-8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20060613192609.GX34196@pervasive.com> User-Agent: Opera M2/8.54 (Linux, build 1745) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200606/203 X-Sequence-Number: 19560 > Uhm... stick with commodity CPUs? Hehe, does this include Opterons ? Still, I looked on the "customize your server" link someone posted and it's amazing ; these things have become cheaper while I wasn't looking... You can buy 10 of these boxes with raptors and 4 opteron cores and 8 gigs of RAM for the price of your average marketing boss's car... definitely makes you think doesn't it. Juts wait until someone equates the price in man-hours to fix/run a borken Dell box...