Arjen van der Meijden wrote: > On 8-9-2006 15:01 Dave Cramer wrote: >> >>> But then again, systems with the Woodcrest 5150 (the subtop one) and >>> Opteron 280 (also the subtop one) are about equal in price, so its >>> not a bad comparison in a bang-for-bucks point of view. The Dempsey >>> was added to show how both the Opteron and the newer Woodcrest would >>> compete against that one. >> >> Did I read this correctly that one of the Opterons in the test only >> had 4G of ram vs 7 G in the Intel boxes ? If so this is a severely >> limiting factor for postgresql at least? > > Actually, its not in this benchmark. Its not a large enough dataset to > put any pressure on IO, not even with just 2GB of memory. interesting - so this is a mostly CPU-bound benchmark ? Out of curiousity have you done any profiling on the databases under test to see where they are spending their time ? Stefan
