Re: [PERFORM] Xeon Woodcrest/Dempsey vs Opteron Socket F/940 with

2006-09-08 Thread Arjen van der Meijden
On 8-9-2006 18:18 Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: interesting - so this is a mostly CPU-bound benchmark ? Out of curiousity have you done any profiling on the databases under test to see where they are spending their time ? Yeah, it is. We didn't do any profiling. We had a Sun-engineer visit us t

Re: [PERFORM] Xeon Woodcrest/Dempsey vs Opteron Socket F/940 with

2006-09-08 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
Arjen van der Meijden wrote: > On 8-9-2006 15:01 Dave Cramer wrote: >> >>> But then again, systems with the Woodcrest 5150 (the subtop one) and >>> Opteron 280 (also the subtop one) are about equal in price, so its >>> not a bad comparison in a bang-for-bucks point of view. The Dempsey >>> was adde

Re: [PERFORM] Xeon Woodcrest/Dempsey vs Opteron Socket F/940 with

2006-09-08 Thread Arjen van der Meijden
On 8-9-2006 15:01 Dave Cramer wrote: But then again, systems with the Woodcrest 5150 (the subtop one) and Opteron 280 (also the subtop one) are about equal in price, so its not a bad comparison in a bang-for-bucks point of view. The Dempsey was added to show how both the Opteron and the newer

Re: [PERFORM] Xeon Woodcrest/Dempsey vs Opteron Socket F/940 with postgresql and some SAS raid-figures

2006-09-08 Thread Dave Cramer
On 8-Sep-06, at 8:44 AM, Arjen van der Meijden wrote: Dave Cramer wrote: Hi, Arjen, The Woodcrest is quite a bit faster than the Opterons. Actually... With Hyperthreading *enabled* the older Dempsey- processor is also faster than the Opterons with PostgreSQL. But then again, it is the top

Re: [PERFORM] Xeon Woodcrest/Dempsey vs Opteron Socket F/940 with

2006-09-08 Thread Arjen van der Meijden
Dave Cramer wrote: Hi, Arjen, The Woodcrest is quite a bit faster than the Opterons. Actually... With Hyperthreading *enabled* the older Dempsey-processor is also faster than the Opterons with PostgreSQL. But then again, it is the top-model Dempsey and not a top-model Opteron so that isn't a

Re: [PERFORM] Xeon Woodcrest/Dempsey vs Opteron Socket F/940 with postgresql and some SAS raid-figures

2006-09-08 Thread Dave Cramer
Hi, Arjen, On 8-Sep-06, at 1:51 AM, Arjen van der Meijden wrote: Hi, We've been running our "webapp database"-benchmark again on mysql and postgresql. This time using a Fujitsu-Siemens RX300 S3 machine equipped with a 2.66Ghz Woodcrest (5150) and a 3.73Ghz Dempsey (5080). And compared t

Re: [PERFORM] Xeon Woodcrest/Dempsey vs Opteron Socket F/940

2006-09-07 Thread Luke Lonergan
Very nice! The 3Ware cards have fallen far behind Areca it seems. They look close in Raid 10 performance, but with RAID5 they get crushed. I'm about to purchase 20 machines for the lab and I think this article pushes me toward Woodcrest, though I think it's a short term decision with quad core A

[PERFORM] Xeon Woodcrest/Dempsey vs Opteron Socket F/940 with postgresql and some SAS raid-figures

2006-09-07 Thread Arjen van der Meijden
Hi, We've been running our "webapp database"-benchmark again on mysql and postgresql. This time using a Fujitsu-Siemens RX300 S3 machine equipped with a 2.66Ghz Woodcrest (5150) and a 3.73Ghz Dempsey (5080). And compared those results to our earlier undertaken Opteron benchmarks on 2.4GHz' So