> "SS" == Stalin Subbiah writes:
SS> We are looking into Sun V210 (2 x 1 GHz cpu, 2 gig ram, 5.8Os)
SS> vs. Dell 1750 (2 x 2.4 GHz xeon, 2 gig ram, RH3.0). database will
SS> mostly be write intensive and disks will be on raid 10. Wondering
SS> if 64bit 1 GHz to 32bit 2.4 GHz make a big differ
> > Now if these vendors could somehow eliminate downtime due to human error
> > we'd be talking *serious* reliablity.
>
> You mean making the OS smart enough to know when clearing the arp
> cache is a bonehead operation, or just making the hardware smart
> enough to realise that the keyswitch real
> Indeed, if our Suns actually diabled the broken hardware when they
> died, fell over, and rebooted themselves, I'd certainly praise them
> to heaven. But I have to say that the really very good reporting of
> failing memory has saved me some headaches.
Ha! Yes, it would seem the obvious thing
Yep. Thanks Bill.
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> As anyone done performa
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As for the compute intensive side (complex joins & sorts etc), the Dell
will
most likely beat the Sun by some distance, although
what the Sun lacks in CPU po
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> is way down the priority list compared with IO throughput, stability,
> manageability, support, etc etc.
Indeed, if our Suns actually diabled the broken hardware when they
died, fell over, and rebooted themselves, I'd certainly
here are
some working to port the kits.
>
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handy.
Thanks!
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Matt, Stalin,
>
> Personally, I've been unimpressed by Dell/Xeon; I think the Sun might do
> better than you think, comparitively.On all the Dell servers I've used
> so
> far, I've not seen performance that comes even close to the hardware
> specs.
It's true that any difference will be far less than the GHz r
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Matt, Stalin,
>
> > As for the compute intensive side (complex joins & sorts etc), the Dell will
> most likely beat the Sun by some distance, although
> > what the Sun lacks in CPU power it may make up a bit in memory bandwidth/
> latency.
>
> Personall
Matt, Stalin,
> As for the compute intensive side (complex joins & sorts etc), the Dell will
most likely beat the Sun by some distance, although
> what the Sun lacks in CPU power it may make up a bit in memory bandwidth/
latency.
Personally, I've been unimpressed by Dell/Xeon; I think the Sun mi
2004 18:41
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>
>
> We are looking into Sun V210 (2 x 1 GHz cpu, 2 gig ram, 5.8Os) vs. Dell 1750
> (2 x 2.4 GHz xeon, 2 gig ram, RH3.0). database
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We are looking into Sun V210 (2 x 1 GHz cpu, 2 gig ram, 5.8Os) vs. Dell 1750
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On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 04:05:45PM -0800, Subbiah, Stalin wrote:
> being the ke
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 04:05:45PM -0800, Subbiah, Stalin wrote:
> being the key performance booster for postgres. what is the preferred OS
> for postgres deployment if given an option between linux and solaris. As
One thing this very much depends on is what you're trying to do.
Suns have a repu
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