Re: Best OS for Postgres 8.2

Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>

From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: David Levy <dvid.levy@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Date: 2007-05-07T21:59:18Z
Lists: pgsql-performance
David Levy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am about to order a new server for my Postgres cluster. I will
> probably get a Dual Xeon Quad Core instead of my current Dual Xeon.
> Which OS would you recommend to optimize Postgres behaviour (i/o
> access, multithreading, etc) ?
> 
> I am hesitating between Fedora Core 6, CentOS and Debian. Can anyone
> help with this ?

Well you just described three linux distributions, which is hardly a 
question about which OS to use ;). I would stick with the long supported 
versions of Linux, thus CentOS 5, Debian 4, Ubuntu Dapper.

Joshua D. Drake


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