On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Walter Vaughan wrote:
<quote>
CPUs ? The more CPUs the better, however if your database does not use many
complex functions your money is best spent on a better disk subsystem. Also,
avoid Intel Xeon processors with PostgreSQL as there is a problem with the
context switching in these processors that gives sub-par performance.
Opterons are generally accepted as being a superior CPU for PostgreSQL
databases.
</quote>
Is this still true in regards to Xeon's? I was looking at a server with Quad
Core Xeon 2 5335 @ 2.0GHz.
My understanding is that this is no longer true with the newer xeons, but
then, I haven't tested them myself, so I can't say.
