On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 08:11:22PM +0100, Tomaz Borstnar wrote: > Hello! > > First tried some searching around, but did not find anything useful > so I gave up and decided to ask here... I am wondering how do pair of > 1.5GHz Itanium2(4MB cache) stack up against pair of AMD or Intel server > CPUs as far as postgresql performance is concerned? Is it worthy or not? -performance would be a better place to ask, so I'm moving this there. The general consensus is that your best bet CPU-wise is Opterons. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461