Re: [GENERAL] advice on buying sun hardware to run postgres

Hi Postgreser's

A DEC (sorry Compaq) Alpha running Linux is a mean combination. Used
Alpha's can be had fairly cheap and they really scream. If cost is an
issue, I would look for an older one used e.g. a

DEC 2100/A500MP (was marketed as a "Sable")

Put Linux on the beast and watch the smoke roll.

Just my .02

Regards,

Jim

At 22:00 4/25/99 -0700, you wrote:
>On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
>// IDE is just plain slow on Unix.  Unix does much better with SCSI,
>// especially when there are multiple disks.
>
>    Although it's not as obvious to most home users, UNIX does much
>better on RISC processors, too.  Although a CISC processor can often
>execute a single process faster, once you get into having to try to do
>multiprocessing, the RISC is a big win.  Anyone who's ever run a machine
>up to a load of around 100-150 knows all about this.  :)
>
>    If you're not willing to spend money on Sun hardware, though, it's
>hard to see a gain.  With similarly priced hardware, the PC will often be
>faster, but you can make some nice high-end server.  I'm running a
>postgres server at work on a 2 processor Ultra 2 with a gig or so of RAM.
>My actual database servers at work have at least 4 Ultra processors with
>4GB of RAM, but they (most of them) will hold up to 14 processors and 14GB
>of RAM.
>
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