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From Lincoln Yeoh
Subject Re: intel vs amd benchmark for pg server
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Msg-id 5.1.0.14.1.20020426233930.03032030@192.228.128.13
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In response to intel vs amd benchmark for pg server  (postgres@vrane.com)
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I don't think those tests can conclude much about the CPUs - so many
factors are different in your comparisons.

My guess it's more to do with drive issues.

Have you tried testing the performance of the different drives with dd or
some other hdd benchmark?

What are the results?

Regards,
Link.

At 09:36 AM 4/26/02 -0400, 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
>
>to a dual processor x86 machine.  Because I have read many

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