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http://www.potentialtech.com/wmoran/postgresql.php#conclusion
----- Original Message -----
From: "Subbiah, Stalin" <SSubbiah@netopia.com>
To: <josh@agliodbs.com>; "Matt Clark" <matt@ymogen.net>; "Subbiah, Stalin"
<SSubbiah@netopia.com>; "'Andrew Sullivan'" <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>;
<pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] [ADMIN] Benchmarking postgres on Solaris/Linux
> As anyone done performance benchmark testing with solaris sparc/intel
linux.
> I once read a post here, which had benchmarking test results for using
> different filesystem like xfs, ext3, ext2, ufs etc. i couldn't find that
> link anymore and google is failing on me, so anyone have the link handy.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh Berkus [mailto:josh@agliodbs.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 12:13 PM
> To: Matt Clark; Subbiah, Stalin; 'Andrew Sullivan';
> pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [PERFORM] [ADMIN] Benchmarking postgres on Solaris/Linux
>
>
> Matt, Stalin,
>
> > As for the compute intensive side (complex joins & sorts etc), the Dell
> will
> most likely beat the Sun by some distance, although
> > what the Sun lacks in CPU power it may make up a bit in memory
bandwidth/
> latency.
>
> Personally, I've been unimpressed by Dell/Xeon; I think the Sun might do
> better than you think, comparitively. On all the Dell servers I've used
> so
> far, I've not seen performance that comes even close to the hardware
specs.
>
> --
> -Josh Berkus
> Aglio Database Solutions
> San Francisco
>
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