Re: Suggestion for a very fast postgresql machine?

Berend de Boer <[email protected]>
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Palle Girgensohn <[email protected]> writes:


> I'm thinking in terms of at least four CPU:s, 12 GB RAM. Hardware is
> mostly a matter of money, I guess, and disks are probably the
> bottleneck, right? 

Only when you're writing a lot. If only 100MB of your 11 GB database
is queried, disks don't matter. With 12GB or RAM, if FreeBSD +
PostgreSQL can use all that, your entire database is possibly in
memory. If you're only reading and not writing a lot, disks are
important, but not that important.

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Live long and prosper,

Berend de Boer
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