> On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Adam Rossi wrote:
>
> > I know this question has been asked before. I have seen it in the archives.
> > Unfortunately the archives are dead right now (any search will yield "no
> > results") and I need to make some decisions.
> >
> > Can anyone give some general recommendations on hardware for a server
> > running Linux (RH6 or 6.1) and PostgreSQL? I estimate that there will be
> > about 2 GIG of data stored in the database initially, but this could grow as
> > high as 5 GIG in the future.
> >
> > Since the db is not multithreaded, I assume that buying a dual processor
> > board and two processors would not be helpful to performance. Like any
>
> actually, if you are going to have concurrent connections to the backend,
> in some circumstances, PostgreSQL will handle multi-processors better then
> others...process one runs on CPU0, process two runs on CPU1, etc...
I have removed multi-threaded from our comparison web page. It confused
too many people.
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