Re: [PERFORM] quad or dual core Intel CPUs

2007-02-14 Thread Claus Guttesen
Approx. 200 reqest a sec. should be a problem unless the queries are heavy. Thanks Claus thats good news! I'm having a reputable vendor build the box and test it for me before delivering. The bottom line of your message, did you mean 'should be not a problem'? I wonder what the main reason for

Re: [PERFORM] quad or dual core Intel CPUs

2007-02-14 Thread Kenji Morishige
Thanks Claus thats good news! I'm having a reputable vendor build the box and test it for me before delivering. The bottom line of your message, did you mean 'should be not a problem'? I wonder what the main reason for your improvement, your ram was increased by a factor of 2, but 4 way opteron

Re: [PERFORM] quad or dual core Intel CPUs

2007-02-14 Thread Claus Guttesen
I am about to pull the trigger on a new machine after analyzing some discussions I posted here last year. I've been trying to spec out a reliable and powerfull enough machine where I won't have to replace it for some time. Currently I've been using a dual Xeon 3.06ghz with 4GB of ram and utilizin

Re: [PERFORM] quad or dual core Intel CPUs

2007-02-13 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
Dan Harris wrote: Arjen van der Meijden wrote: But be aware that there can be substantial and unexpected differences on this relatively new platform due to simply changing the OS, like we saw when going from linux 2.6.15 to 2.6.18, as you can see here: http://tweakers.net/reviews/657/2 Havi

Re: [PERFORM] quad or dual core Intel CPUs

2007-02-13 Thread Guillaume Smet
Dan, On 2/13/07, Dan Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Having upgraded to 2.6.18 fairly recently, I am *very* interested in what caused the throughput to drop in 2.6.18? I haven't done any benchmarking on my system to know if it affected my usage pattern negatively, but I am curious if anyone k

Re: [PERFORM] quad or dual core Intel CPUs

2007-02-13 Thread Dan Harris
Arjen van der Meijden wrote: But be aware that there can be substantial and unexpected differences on this relatively new platform due to simply changing the OS, like we saw when going from linux 2.6.15 to 2.6.18, as you can see here: http://tweakers.net/reviews/657/2 Having upgraded to 2

Re: [PERFORM] quad or dual core Intel CPUs

2007-02-13 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Kenji Morishige wrote: Please comment on any issues you may see with this box and my assumptions. Also any FreeBSD kernel issues or tweaks you could recommend. I would recommend posting to freebsd-hardware or freebsd-stable and asking if there are any gotchas with the X7DBE+ and 6.2 (for ins

Re: [PERFORM] quad or dual core Intel CPUs

2007-02-13 Thread Arjen van der Meijden
Hi Kenji, On 13-2-2007 20:46 Kenji Morishige wrote: Here is the full specification of the new box I hope to build and run FreeBSD 6.X and PostgreSQL on: - SuperMicro Dual Xeon X7DBE+ motherboard + 2 x Quad Core X5355 2.66Ghz OR + 2 x Dual Core 5160 3.0Ghz - 8 x 1GB PC2-4200 fully bu

[PERFORM] quad or dual core Intel CPUs

2007-02-13 Thread Kenji Morishige
I am about to pull the trigger on a new machine after analyzing some discussions I posted here last year. I've been trying to spec out a reliable and powerfull enough machine where I won't have to replace it for some time. Currently I've been using a dual Xeon 3.06ghz with 4GB of ram and utilizing