I am looking at setting up two general-purpose database servers, replicated with Slony. Each server I'm looking at has the following specs: Dell PowerEdge 2950 - 2 x Dual Core Intel(r) Xeon(r) 5130, 4MB Cache, 2.00GHz, 1333MHZ FSB - 4GB RAM - PERC 5/i, x6 Backplane, Integrated Controller Card (256MB battery- backed cache) - 6 x 73GB, SAS, 3.5-inch, 15K RPM Hard Drive arranged in RAID 10
Has anyone done any performance-comparison cpu-wise between the above mentioned cpu and an opteron 270/280? Alot of attention seems to be spent on the disks and the raid-controller which is somewhat important by itself, but this has been covered in numorous threads other places. regards Claus
