On Jun 30, 2010, at 11:12 AM, tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I read a post > earlier today that mentioned in passing that it was better to have a > faster processor than more cores. This really depends on your workload and how much you value latency vs. throughput. If you tend to have a lot of very simple queries, more cores => more throughput, and it may not matter much if your queries take 20ms or 30ms if you can be doing a dozen or two more of them concurrently in an AMD system than in an Intel one. On the other hand, if you have less clients, or more latency-sensitive clients, then fewer-but-faster cores is usually a win. Either way, the amount of power you can get for your money is pretty impressive. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
