-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Carlo Stonebanks wrote: > Unfortunately, LINUX is not an option at this time. We looked into it; there > is no *NIX expertise in the enterprise. However, I have raised this issue in > various forums before, and when pressed no one was willing to say that "*NIX > *DEFINITELY* outperforms Windows" for what my client is doing (or if it did > outperform Windows, that it would outperform so significantly that it > merited the move). > > Was this incorrect? Can my client DEFINITELY expect a significant > improvement in performance for what he is doing? > > DISK subsystem reports: SCSI/RAID Smart Array E200 controller using RAID 1. > Based on the hardware config you mention, it sounds to me as if you put all your money in the wrong basket (e.g; way too much ram and cpu / not enough IO). Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http://www.commandprompt.com/ UNIQUE NOT NULL Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate PostgreSQL Replication: http://www.commandprompt.com/products/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG32r5ATb/zqfZUUQRAkAgAJ97aaOJZBbf8PobFjWs2v2fPh67PQCfeDVF mU6DA7mb3XfWDlpRsOfLi0U= =t7b9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings