2009/4/13 Ognjen Blagojevic <ognjen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hi all, > > First, thank you all for your answers. > > > Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote: >> >> Give it a try, and please tell us what sort of application you want to >> put on it. > > It is a student database for the college which is a client of ours. The size > of the database should be around 1GB, half being binary data (images). Not > more than 100 users at the time will be working with the application. > > I don't worry about the performance, but more about the maintenance under > Windows. What file system to use? How to schedule vacuuming and backup? Are > there any windows services that should be turned off? Those questions come > to my mind when I consider new OS for the RDBMS. NTFS, use autovacuum, backup nightly (?), Turn off anti-virus software. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance