Re: [PERFORM] which hardware setup

2010-05-25 Thread Pedro Axelrud
Sorry Jesper, I thought I had mentioned.. our dataset have 18GB. Pedro Axelrud http://mailee.me http://softa.com.br http://flavors.me/pedroaxl On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 03:21, Jesper Krogh wrote: > Option 2: >> App Server and Postgres: Dual Xeon 5520 quad core with 12GB ram and 2x >> 146GB 15k

Re: [PERFORM] which hardware setup

2010-05-24 Thread Jesper Krogh
Option 2: App Server and Postgres: Dual Xeon 5520 quad core with 12GB ram and 2x 146GB 15k RPM SAS (RAID1) disks you didnt mention your dataset size, but i the second option would be preferrable in most situations since it gives more of the os memory for disc caching. 12 gb vs 4 gb for

[PERFORM] which hardware setup

2010-05-24 Thread Pedro Axelrud
Hello, I work for a web app to send email newsletters, and I have one question about postgres' performance in two different setups. Actually we have one 4GB Ram VPS running our app server (it's a rails app under nginx and thin) and a 4GB Ram VPS running the database (18GB). We want to migrate to b