Subject:Re: [GENERAL] advice on buying sun hardware to run
postgres
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > There is. Linux/*BSD use only a big kernel lock, or
> > several big kernel locks.
>
> I think you're talking silly.
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > There is. Linux/*BSD use only a big kernel lock, or
> > several big kernel locks.
>
> I think you're talking silly. BSD has one big lock, but my count there
> are around 60 locks in Linux 2.2. Solaris has thousands of locks.
>
>
OK, *BSD has one, Linux has 60,
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Chris Bitmead wrote:
# Modern operating systems don't ask the disk to do something and then
# just wait for the answer. That's what interrupts are for. Anyway, modern
# disks have caches.
You can only cache so much. At some point, you're going to
actually want to wr
Maarten Boekhold wrote:
> > Never lost a file to Linux in 5 years.
>
> Haha, just lost my home directory this weekend. But then again, I was in
> win98 when my rabbit chewed through a 220V cable and the whole room went
> black. Might just have something to do with it (but on the other hand,
> win
>
> Never lost a file to Linux in 5 years.
Haha, just lost my home directory this weekend. But then again, I was in
win98 when my rabbit chewed through a 220V cable and the whole room went
black. Might just have something to do with it (but on the other hand,
win98 shouldn't even be touching tha
Dustin Sallings wrote:
> Works != works as well as SCSI. I've yet to find an example where
> IDE works as well as SCSI in real life (vs. benchmarks). My real life
> scenarios rarely involve telling a machine to be still so we can do a disk
> read, then again for a disk write.
Modern op
Jim Jennis wrote:
> A DEC (sorry Compaq) Alpha running Linux is a mean combination. Used
> Alpha's can be had fairly cheap and they really scream. If cost is an
> issue, I would look for an older one used e.g. a
>
> DEC 2100/A500MP (was marketed as a "Sable")
>
> Put Linux on the beast and watch
Hi Postgreser's
A DEC (sorry Compaq) Alpha running Linux is a mean combination. Used
Alpha's can be had fairly cheap and they really scream. If cost is an
issue, I would look for an older one used e.g. a
DEC 2100/A500MP (was marketed as a "Sable")
Put Linux on the beast and watch the smoke rol
> Works != works as well as SCSI. I've yet to find an example where
> IDE works as well as SCSI in real life (vs. benchmarks). My real life
> scenarios rarely involve telling a machine to be still so we can do a disk
> read, then again for a disk write.
Probably true. IDE can not access
On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Chris Bitmead wrote:
# > IDE is just plain slow on Unix. Unix does much better with SCSI,
# > especially when there are multiple disks.
#
# Oh I don't know. If you've only got 1 or 2 disks you may find IDE
# sufficient. (well it works nicely for me.)
Works != work
On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, Eric Enockson wrote:
> I am going to buying a sun server to run postgres
> on as a backend database server for a www site. Does anyone
> have suggestions on what to buy? Does anyone have
> advice on running postgres on solaris or suggestions not to?
Several posters h
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