Re: which dual-CPU hardware/OS is fastest for PostgreSQL?

On 11 Jan 2005 04:25:04 GMT
Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org> wrote:
> Xeon sux pretty bad...
>
> > Linux or FreeBSD or _?_
>
> The killer question won't be of what OS is "faster," but rather of
> what OS better supports the fastest hardware you can get your hands
> on.

Well, if multiple OSs work on the hardware you like, there is nothing
wrong with selecting the fastest among them of course.  As for Linux or
FreeBSD, you may also want to consider NetBSD.  It seems that with the
latest releases of both, NetBSD outperforms FreeBSD in at least one
benchmark.

http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/gmcgarry/

The benchmarks were run on a single processor but you can always run the
benchmark on whatever hardware you select - assuming that it runs both.

Isn't there also a PostgreSQL specific benchmark available?

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