Before I shell out the $15k on the 4-way Opteron, I'm going to spend
some long, hard time looking for ways to make the system more efficient.
However, after all that's already been done, I'm not optimistic that it's
going to preclude needing the new server. I'm just surprised that nobody
seems to have used PostgreSQL on a quad-Opteron before!
Well, I haven't had a chance to run PostgreSQL on a quad-Opteron box, but in discussing this with someone building a cluster out of them, their experience is that they are seeing better performance out of a quad-Opteron than a 3Ghz Xeon box (quad as well), which they believe reflects superior memory architecture. So, if someone has run on a quad-Xeon of similar "specs", then I would imagine you should see similar, if not better, numbers.
Chris -- | Christopher Petrilli | petrilli (at) amber.org
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