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Re: Hardware purchase question

Andrew Hood <ahood.lists@ambergreen.co.uk>

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From: Andrew Hood <ahood.lists@ambergreen.co.uk>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Date: 2004-12-14T09:33:55Z
Lists: pgsql-performance 
Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> 
> An Opteron, properly tuned with PostgreSQL will always beat a Xeon
> in terms of raw cpu.
> 
> RAID 10 will typically always outperform RAID 5 with the same HD config.
> 
> Fibre channel in general will always beat a normal (especially an LSI) 
> raid.
> 
> Dell's suck for PostgreSQL.

Does anyone have any OS recommendations/experiences for PostgreSQL on 
Opteron?

Thanks,
Andrew