Re: intel vs amd benchmark for pg server

A fairer test would be to equip the machines with equivalent
disk (rpms and number) and RAM (amount and speed) configurations.

SiS motherboards, particularly with on-board video, tend
to be lower performance than boards with separate AGP/PCI
video.

postgres@vrane.com wrote:
> Hi
>
> I would like to upgrade my production pg server from a machine with
> following specs
>     celeron 900MHz, intel 810 motherboard, 512MB
>     pc 133 sdram memory,
>     PGDATA is on 2 ide 7200rpm drives under software raid 1,
>     linux kernel 2.4.18
.
.
.
> My workstation specs is amd 1.33GHz, 192MB SDRAM, SIS motherboard,
> $PGDATA is on a single 5400rpm drive.

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