On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Ron <rjpeace@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > At 02:47 PM 3/24/2009, Joe Uhl wrote: > >> Turns out we may have an opportunity to purchase a new database server >> with this increased load. Seems that the best route, based on feedback to >> this thread, is to go whitebox, get quad opterons, and get a very good disk >> controller. >> >> Can anyone recommend a whitebox vendor? > > I'll 2nd the Aberdeen recommendation. I'll add Pogolinux to that list as > well. > > >> Is there a current controller anyone on this list has experience with that >> they could recommend? > > The 2 best performing RAID controller vendors at this time are AMCC (AKA > 3Ware) and Areca. > In general, the 8+ port Areca's with their BB cache maxed outperform every > other controller available. > > >> This will be a bigger purchase so will be doing research and benchmarking >> but any general pointers to a vendor/controller greatly appreciated. > > Be =very= careful to thoroughly bench both the AMD and Intel CPU options. > It is far from clear which is the better purchase. My anecdotal experience has been that the Opterons stay afloat longer as load increases, but I haven't had machines with similar enough hardware to really test that. > I'd be very interested to see the results of your research and benchmarks > posted here on pgsql-performance. Me too. I'm gonna spend some time this summer benchmarking and tuning the database servers that I pretty much had to burn in and put in production this year due to time pressures. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
