"Steve Wolfe" <steve@iboats.com> writes:
> I mentioned this in another message, but I'll reiterate it for
> everyone's sake. In a day or two, I'll have the chance to pit two
> machines against each other to test their capacity at serving out queries
> with Postgres - a dual Athlon MP 1800+ and a quad 700 MHz Xeon, both
> running Linux. The benchmark I'm planning on running involves a sample of
> queries taken from our day-to-day production, so that would most likely
> reflect what *I* can expect out of the machine.
You'll want to make sure both machines have comparable disk
subsystems; otherwise you won't be comparing what you think you're
comparing...
-Doug
--
Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees.
--T. J. Jackson, 1863