Thanks Claus thats good news! I'm having a reputable vendor build the box and test it for me before delivering. The bottom line of your message, did you mean 'should be not a problem'? I wonder what the main reason for your improvement, your ram was increased by a factor of 2, but 4 way opteron vs 4 way woodcrest performance must not be that significant. -Kenji > We recently migrated from a four way opteron @ 2 GHz with 8 GB to a > four way woodcrest @ 3 GHz (HP DL380 G5) with 16 GB ram. I also > upgraded FreeBSD from 6.0 to 6.2 and did a minor upgrade of postgresql > from 7.4.9 to 7.4.12. The change was tremendous, the first few hours > of after it went into production I had to doublecheck that our website > worked, since the load was way below 1 whereas the load had been > almost 100 during peak. > > I don't have any financial ties to HP but building a server from > scratch may not be worth it, rather than spending time assemling all > the different parts yourself I would suggest you get a server from one > vendor who build a server according to your specs. > > The DL380 (also) has a 256 MB bbc controller, the nic works flawlessly > with FreeBSD 6.2, all parts are well integrated, the frontbay can > accomodate 8 146 GB SAS drives. This server is wellsuited as a > postgresql-server. > > Approx. 200 reqest a sec. should be a problem unless the queries are heavy. > > regards > Claus
