> I have two dual opteron 248's with 4g of ram each, 6x36G 15k rpm ultra > 320 scsi disks in hardware raid 5, and they are by far the fastest > machines I've user used. As far as this "headache" of using 64 bit > Linux, I've experienced no such thing. I'm using gentoo on both > machines, which are dedicated for postgres 7.4 and replicated with > slony. They're both quite fast and reliable. One machine even runs a > secondary instance of pg, pg 8 beta4 in this case, for development, > which also runs quite well. Good, I'll give it a shot and see what I come up with...thx. Merlin
