On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 12:35 +0100, Filip Wuytack wrote:
> I've been lurking at both the bizgres and postgres mailing lists in recent
> months to get some ideas for building a new db server. I saw some threads on
> the 7k$ server and it sounds like the Opteron, lots of ram and raid10 is the
> way to go. (my budget is +/- 6000 (=$10000))
Just don't buy Xeon MP, OK?
> I'm also keen to
> make use of PL/R inside Postgresql, so I presume this might put extra
> requirements on the CPU side of things.
It definitely will, but stats take effort wherever you calc them.
> I would be very keen to hear what you would suggest for this setup or what
> experiences you have to share.
Thats a big set of questions you got there...
Best Regards, Simon Riggs