On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:59:36 -0500 Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@xxxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 09/19/07 07:33, Bjørn T Johansen wrote: > > 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 > > That'll fit in shared memory. Very fast. > > Where will it be in a year? Well, twice as much I guess... > > > using the database and at the most (at the moment) there is about > > 12-14 concurrent users and not much data volume... > > How many users in a year? It's an internal webapp for a company, so I guess not that much more... > > > 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... > > 12-14 users on a Quad-core system with 4GB RAM? > > Am I so old that (even accepting Tomcat and Java) that seems > "excessive"? Yes, I think that it's a bit excessive but the company can afford it so why not... :) BTJ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings