Sorry Jesper, I thought I had mentioned.. our dataset have 18GB.
Pedro Axelrud http://mailee.me http://softa.com.br http://flavors.me/pedroaxl On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 03:21, Jesper Krogh <jes...@krogh.cc> wrote: > Option 2: >> App Server and Postgres: Dual Xeon 5520 quad core with 12GB ram and 2x >> 146GB 15k RPM SAS (RAID1) disks >> >> > you didnt mention your dataset size, but i the second option would be > preferrable in most situations since it gives more of the os memory for disc > caching. 12 gb vs 4 gb for the host running pg >