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

[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