On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 16:47, Zydoon wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Thank you for sharing this. > Coming back to my problem :) A very faithful partner accepted to > gracefully borrow us 3 Pseries (bi-ppc + 2G RAM not more). with linux on > them. > Now I'm trying to make my tests, and I'm not that sure I will make the > switch to the PSeries, since my dual xeon with 4 G RAM can handle 3500 > concurrent postmasters consuming 3.7 G of the RAM. I cannot reach this > number on the PSeries with 2 G. > > can someone give me advice ? > BTW, I promise, at the end of my tests, I'll publish my report. Search the performance archives for the last 4 or 5 months for PPC / pseries machines. You'll find a very long thread about the disappointing performance the tester got with a rather expensive P Series machine. And his happy ending of testing on an Opteron machine.