[TriLUG] Recommend some 'big iron'?

[Andrew Perrin]

On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Chris Hedemark wrote:

> If performance is of the utmost importance, are you sure you want
> PostgreSQL?

What would you recommend? I do want the transactions, conssitency, etc.,
that pg provides, so I'm not likely to use mySQL. And I would very much
like the system to be all-free (as in speech), so I'd like to avoid
oracle, etc.  Any other ideas?

> Again, I'd avoid the Sun E450.  Disappointment city.  It was considered
> slow two years ago.  My benchmarking of CPU intensive applications against
> this machine, fully loaded, was pitiful.

Thanks - will keep in mind.

> 
> At the bottom end an SMP Athlon MP box would be an excellent machine.  It
> would be very hard to spend $5,000 on such a workstation.
> 
> If you really want RISC hardware check out the Sun Blade 1000 at the bottom
> end.  Dual UltraSPARC III processors, 8MB cache per processor, support for
> high memory counts (if needed), etc.  A really well spec'd out box would
> run you in the neighborhood of $15,000.
> 
> A Compaq AlphaStation DS20E is an absolute shredder with dual 833MHz
> Alphas.  Two not enough?  The ES40 supports four processors (but only at
> 667MHz each).
> 
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