Re: Large PostgreSQL servers

On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 13:06 -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 03/21/12 12:31 PM, Kjetil Nygård wrote:
> > We wonder if someone could give some hardware / configuration specs for
> > large PostgreSQL installations.
> > We're interested in:
> >     - Number of CPUs
> >     - Memory on the server
> >     - shared_buffers
> >     - Size of the database on disk
>
> oh, and you left out a couple /very/ important specifications...
>
>      - number and speed of storage IO channels
>      - number and speed (RPM) of disk drives


I understand that IO performance, transactions/s, 24/7 vs office hours,
data-complexity etc is also needed to really say how much beating a
database can handle.

I just hoped for some simple numbers, but other relevant performance
numbers etc would be nice as well :-)



Regards,
Kny