> I have two dual opteron 248's with 4g of ram each, 6x36G 15k rpm ultra
> 320 scsi disks in hardware raid 5, and they are by far the fastest
> machines I've user used. As far as this "headache" of using 64 bit
> Linux, I've experienced no such thing. I'm using gentoo on both
> machines, which are dedicated for postgres 7.4 and replicated with
> slony. They're both quite fast and reliable. One machine even runs a
> secondary instance of pg, pg 8 beta4 in this case, for development,
> which also runs quite well.
Good, I'll give it a shot and see what I come up with...thx.
Merlin