On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 14:22, Andrew M.A. Cater <amaca...@galactic.demon.co.uk> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:30:24PM +0000, amka wrote:
<snip> >> I am going to build a Postgresql server, and will execute a lot of perl >> (local) scripts in relation with the database. A lot of read/write in >> large tables (>10'000'000 rows), so I need (several) indexes... which >> have to be updated at each write. >> >> The scripts will have to do a lot of manipulations with datas. <snip> > I've got an earlier Opteron in an earlier Tyan motherboard available to > me - which has been running more or less 24/7 for three years and > supporting a community of users for a while. > > Get good quality memory (possibly ECC memory if you can) and you'll > have a workhorse for a long period of time. Since I doubt he is running a DB that big just for fun, I would say ECC RAM is mandatory. In fact, every time I look up the error rates for RAM, I wonder why consumer class RAM isn't ECC. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
