Well, it isn't really the largest database or the database that need the most performance... At the moment, the database isn't larger than 15MB and is growing slowly... It is a webapp that is using the database and at the most (at the moment) there is about 12-14 concurrent users and not much data volume... We are thinking about this spec. because the web app is a java app, and we need need something that can run java fast as well as postgresql... BTJ On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:11:01 +0200 tv@xxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi, you have forgot to note some very important information - what load do you > expect and what is the size of the database? Is this an upgrade (is the > database already running somewhere - this would give you some performance > requirements) or is it a completely new database? Hom nay users / transactions > do you expect? > > Anyway the machine seems quite powerful to me - maybe I'd use more RAM but > that's easy to do in the future and depends on the size of the dabase. The > disks seem quite fast, just think about partitioning (raid scheme, where to put > xlog, etc.) > > I guess we have PERC in some of our Dell servers, and it works fine - but I'm > not sure about the exact type / version as I'm not responsible for the servers. > > Tomas > > > It's a Dell server with the following spec: > > > > PE2950 Quad-Core Xeon E5335 2.0GHz, dual > > 4GB 667MHz memory > > 3 x 73GB SAS 15000 rpm disk > > PERC 5/I Integrated controller card (8 ports, 256MB cache, battery backup) x > > 6 backplane > > > > > > Is this ok to run PostgreSQL 8.2.x and Tomcat on? And does anyone know if > > this PERC controller is supported under > > Linux (not heard of it before...) > > > > > > Regards, > > > > BTJ > > > > -- > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Bjørn T Johansen > > > > btj@xxxxxxxxxx > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Someone wrote: > > "I understand that if you play a Windows CD backwards you hear strange > > Satanic messages" > > To which someone replied: > > "It's even worse than that; play it forwards and it installs Windows" > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > > TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate > > subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your > > message can get through to the mailing list cleanly > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq