Re: intel vs amd benchmark for pg server

Yes but you keep comparing apples and oranges.  Your benchmarks don't 
mean hardly anything CPU speed wise because you've got so many other 
variants.

postgres@vrane.com wrote:

>1. 64MB machines beat 192MB and 240MB machies.
>
>2. On 64 MB machine I tested on 5400rpm drive
>	and still much faster than athlon machine.
>
>3. On sis machine I am using a separete ati agp card
>	not the built in one and as a result
>	i am using all memory.
>
>You would expect AMD machines to be at least
>slightly faster because cpu speed ratio are
>about 2 or bigger.   You might not expect
>linear scaling but at least faster you know.
>
>Also as I said kernel compilation time
>scales almost linearly with cpu speed
>
>
>
>On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 09:49:31AM -0400, P.J. Josh Rovero wrote:
>
>>A fairer test would be to equip the machines with equivalent
>>disk (rpms and number) and RAM (amount and speed) configurations.
>>
>>SiS motherboards, particularly with on-board video, tend
>>to be lower performance than boards with separate AGP/PCI
>>video.
>>
>>postgres@vrane.com wrote:
>>
>>>Hi
>>>
>>>I would like to upgrade my production pg server from a machine with
>>>following specs
>>>	celeron 900MHz, intel 810 motherboard, 512MB
>>>	pc 133 sdram memory,
>>>	PGDATA is on 2 ide 7200rpm drives under software raid 1,
>>>	linux kernel 2.4.18
>>>
>>.
>>.
>>.
>>
>>>My workstation specs is amd 1.33GHz, 192MB SDRAM, SIS motherboard,
>>>$PGDATA is on a single 5400rpm drive.  
>>>
>>-- 
>>P. J. "Josh" Rovero                                 Sonalysts, Inc.
>>Email: rovero@sonalysts.com    www.sonalysts.com    215 Parkway North
>>Work: (860)326-3671 or 442-4355                     Waterford CT 06385
>>***********************************************************************
>>
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