New Opteron box, dedicated to PostgreSQL

[Axel Rau]

Am 16.03.2007 um 00:11 schrieb Jan Mikkelsen:
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> Not that I'm aware of.  FreeBSD doesn't have NUMA awareness.
And fbsd does not allow to tie say a process group to a cpu?
>
>> 2. If there is no good solution for this problem, does it make sense
>> to stay with one dualcore (soon quadcore) processor?
>
> Benchmark and see.
Would be nice to know before I order the stuff..,
>
>> 4. Can I install the system on an Areca raid?
>
> Yes.  If you are planning to use 6.2-RELEASE, make sure that you  
> get the
> arcmsr driver from 6-STABLE.  The arcmsr driver in 6.2-RELEASE can  
> show
> I/O errors under high load.
That's valuable info. Thanks,

Axel
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