Reece Hart wrote:
On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 18:23, William Yu wrote:
/At this time, only Newisys offers a Quad Opteron box and it carries a hefty
premium. (Sun's upcoming 4X machine is a rebadged Newisys machine and
it's possible HP's will be also.)/
There are several vendors with quad opterons out
On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 18:23, William Yu wrote:
At this time, only Newisys offers a Quad Opteron box and it carries a hefty
premium. (Sun's upcoming 4X machine is a rebadged Newisys machine and
it's possible HP's will be also.)
There are several vendors with quad opterons out there. Off the
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Christopher Petrilli wrote:
> On Mar 10, 2004, at 3:14 PM, Steve Wolfe wrote:
>
> >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
> "SW" == Steve Wolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SW> However, after all that's already been done, I'm not optimistic that it's
SW> going to preclude needing the new server. I'm just surprised that nobody
SW> seems to have used PostgreSQL on a quad-Opteron before!
I think people saturate the
With mem per CPU, Opterons scale very well in most cases (as long as you
have many processes). The lower memory latency helps too.
Is it likely for you to be network bandwidth limited - e.g. maxing out your
NICs or NIC I/O capacity? I doubt it, but if you are actually getting close
then things
On Mar 10, 2004, at 3:14 PM, Steve Wolfe wrote:
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
> The only time I've seen high cpu and memory bandwidth load with
near-zero i/o
> load like you describe was on Oracle and it turned out to be an sql
> optimization problem.
> What caused it was a moderate but not very large table on which a very
> frequent query was doing a full table scan (= seq
