Re: [PERFORM] Recommendations for configuring a 200 GB

2005-06-09 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
We're hoping PostgreSQL can match or beat Sybase performance, and preliminary tests look good. We should be able to get some load testing going within a week, and we're shooting for slipping these machines into the mix around the end of this month. (We've gone to some lengths to keep our code po

Re: [PERFORM] Recommendations for configuring a 200 GB

2005-06-09 Thread Kevin Grittner
Thanks for your reply. Besides your post regarding *nix vs. Windows I got a few which didn't go to the group. Words like "bold move" and "disaster waiting to happen" tended to feature prominently in these messages (regarding putting something this big on PostgreSQL under Windows), and management

Re: [PERFORM] Recommendations for configuring a 200 GB database

2005-06-09 Thread Richard Huxton
Kevin Grittner wrote: The manager of the DBA team is reluctant to change both the OS and the DBMS at the same time, so unless I can make a strong case for why it is important to run postgresql under Linux, we will be running this on Windows. Currently, there are two Java-based middle tier pro