Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:15:04 -0400 From: David Magda <dmagda@ee.ryerson.ca> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD Message-ID: <5FE48A6B-DD60-4FED-B925-C47CA555E962@ee.ryerson.ca> In-Reply-To: <3861E2E8-4232-4C46-8D0A-1B6079BCA07D@mac.com> References: <453D49D2.1010705@rogers.com> <3861E2E8-4232-4C46-8D0A-1B6079BCA07D@mac.com>
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On Oct 23, 2006, at 19:10, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Moderately...it kinda depends on the budget available. I regard > Solaris + Oracle as one of the most reliable combinations for > moderate to extreme load, for a system that might well be in > operation for five to ten years. If I was going to do FreeBSD, I > might look into Postgres instead of MySQL; well, I might look into > something else than MySQL under many circumstances. I've gotten > some pretty good use out of OpenBase, for another choice. FWIW, Solaris 10 Update 3 (6/06) comes with Postres on the DVDs and you can get official support from Sun if that's important. Solaris/ x86 does run on HP hardware (with support available), but I don't the exact HCL offhand. As for Postgres on FreeBSD, FlighAware seems to be using it some some decent amount of data: > . Receiving the data and processing it puts them about 6 minutes > behind real time > . Generating one map can be done in about 160 milliseconds of CPU time > . Capable of generating several million maps a day > . About 1 TB of stored data > . Approximately 40 million position updates on air craft per day http://joseph.randomnetworks.com/archives/2006/05/12/flightaware- freebsd-and-postgresql/
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