Re: Has anyone run on the new G5 yet

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От Sean Shanny
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Msg-id 3FCE5B85.9000406@earthlink.net
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Ответ на Has anyone run on the new G5 yet  (Sean Shanny <shannyconsulting@earthlink.net>)
Ответы Re: Has anyone run on the new G5 yet  ("Fred Moyer" <fred@redhotpenguin.com>)
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I should also add that we have already done a ton of tuning based on the
archives of this list so we are not starting from scratch here.

Thanks.

--sean

Sean Shanny wrote:

> To all,
>
> We are building a data warehouse composed of essentially click stream
> data.  The DB is growing fairly quickly as to be expected, currently
> at 90GB for one months data.  The idea is to keep 6 months detailed
> data on line and then start aggregating older data to summary tables.
> We have 2 fact tables currently, one with about 68 million rows and
> the other with about 210 million rows.  Numerous dimension tables
> ranging from a dozen rows to millions.
>
> We are currently running on a Dell 2650 with 2 Xeon 2.8 processors in
> hyper-threading mode, 4GB of ram, and 5 SCSI drives in a RAID 0,
> Adaptec PERC3/Di,  configuration.  I believe they are 10k drives.
> Files system is EXT3. We are running RH9 Linux kernel 2.4.20-20.9SMP
> with bigmem turned on.  This box is used only for the warehouse.  All
> the ETL work is done on this machine as well.  DB version is
> postgreSQL 7.4.
>
> We are running into issues with IO saturation obviously.  Since this
> thing is only going to get bigger we are looking for some advice on
> how to accommodate DB's of this size.
>
> First question is do we gain anything by moving the RH Enterprise
> version of Linux in terms of performance, mainly in the IO realm as we
> are not CPU bound at all?  Second and more radical, has anyone run
> postgreSQL on the new Apple G5 with an XRaid system?  This seems like
> a great value combination.  Fast CPU, wide bus, Fibre Channel IO,
> 2.5TB all for ~17k.
>
> I keep see references to terabyte postgreSQL installations, I was
> wondering if anyone on this list is in charge of one of those and can
> offer some advice on how to position ourselves hardware wise.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --sean
>
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