Re: Tuning PostgreSQL, pt 2

On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 15:38, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 15:09, scott.marlowe wrote:
> > On 29 Jul 2003, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 14:00, scott.marlowe wrote:
> > > > On 29 Jul 2003, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 11:18, scott.marlowe wrote:
> > > > > > On 29 Jul 2003, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 10:14, Vivek Khera wrote:
> > > > > > > > >>>>> "GS" == Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > GS> "scott.marlowe" <scott.marlowe@ihs.com> writes:
> [snip]
[snip]
> > I think most of them are running under TPF on a mainframe in a basement
> > somewhere, like for airline reservations.  I've never worked on one, but
> > met one of the guys who runs one, and they use 12 mainframes for 6 live
> > machines and each live machine has a failover machine behind it in sysplex
> > mode.  I kept thinking of the giant dinosaurs in Jurassic park...
>
> We have something similar running on Alphas and VMS; does about
> 8M Txn/day.  Anyone who uses E-ZPass in the northeast eventually
> gets stuck in our systems.

Oh, forget to mention:
yes, they are in a 2-deep basement.

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