> -----Original Message----- > From: pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of William Yu > Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 11:36 AM > To: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Splitting queries across servers > > > Without memory, the prices are roughly: > > 4x846 = $5500 > 4x848 = $6500 > 4x850 = $8000 > > Memory costs would be: > > 16GB (1GB DIMMs) = $3000 > 32GB (2GB DIMMs) = $7500 > 64GB (4GB DIMMs) = $24000 > 128GB (8GB DIMMs) = $60000 > > The prices on the 4GB & 8GB DIMMs are bleeding edge of course. I see a > wide range of for them on Froogle. You will want your vendor of course > to pick memory is proper for the MB and pay whatever premium they'll > charge ontop of it. (Looking at the Tyan website, they only list 2GB > DIMMs as supported for their Quad Opteron MBs but whether that's because > those specs were done before >= 4GB DIMMs were available or an actual > hardware limitation, I dunno.) > Thank you! That's very thorough. hm... we're talking 35K then. That could be in my budget. > > > > Max wrote: > >> > >>With a Quad Opteron (4 memory slots per CPU), you could put 64GB of RAM > >>onto a single machine using 4GB DIMMs in every slot. > > > > > > We were talking about a similar solution today, but not quite as good as > > this. You really got me thinking now. 64Gb.. hm that would solve many > > issues. what do you think the cost would be for such a beast ? > Any idea ? > > > > Max > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > > TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command > (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
