Re: What HW / OS is recommeded

Hmm...
I read that Raid5 is suggested over Raid1. Also HW vendors told us that.
Php :-) is not an option and I dont believe Perl is a bottleneck as well.



Michael Ben-Nes wrote:

> I think and please correct me that Postgres loves RAM, the more the
> better.
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> Any way RAID5 is awful with writing, go with  RAID1 ( mirroring )
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> I use Debian Sarge and im very happy.
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> Perl is very slow, maybe you can use PHP ?
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> Alex wrote:
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>> Hi,
>> we are planning to upgrade our servers but deciding on the right
>> configuration seems to be quite difficult.
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>> As for the system. About 50 tables, 20M records and growing about
>> 500k-1m per month.
>> The systems mostly loads data from files (perl batch jobs). And
>> generates client files. Jobs generally dont run at the same time, but
>> timely loading/delivery is very important. We also run tomcat with no
>> more than 5-10 concurrent users connecting. (mostly browsing data)
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>> We are currently looking at Dell / HP
>> but the questions is
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>> - how many processors (2 or 4)
>> - do we gain with 4 cpus if we probably never have a few users connected
>> - what processors are recommended  Opteron / Xeon / Itanium
>> - how much memory ?  2GB ? 4GB ?
>> - Disks, i guess we go with Raid5, 15k SCSI
>> - what OS ? Suse / RHE3 / Fedora /
>> - Disk controller ?
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>> Currently we run it on a Dell Blade, dual P3 1.4ghz with 1G memory
>> Adding 1GB memory did actually not bring much performance gains.
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>> Does anyone have some first hand experience? Can anybody point me to
>> some resources ? Or recommend certain systems?
>> What kind of performance gain can be expected going from a P3 to a
>> higher end processor ?
>> Thanks for any suggestions
>>
>> Alex
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