-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/19/07 08:32, Bjørn T Johansen wrote: > 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... :) Lucky SOB. I can't get my company to spring for a dual-core 2GB system with SATA drives. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG8Sa4S9HxQb37XmcRAiOzAKDh3TGGuYLoJvK5bAJzGfouYDqVeQCgzcp4 lUjG26gFkQwccLuG9WuT+Do= =oFhQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings