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Date:      Fri, 12 Oct 2001 09:04:44 +1000 (EST)
From:      Colin Campbell <sgcccdc@citec.qld.gov.au>
To:        Len Conrad <LConrad@Go2France.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: PostgreSQL & shared memory
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0110120903100.19490-100000@guru.citec.qld.gov.au>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20011011094458.04e82840@mail.Go2France.com>

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Hi,

On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Len Conrad wrote:

>
> > > In fact we moved the site from a Win2k/iis/sqlserver to BSD, and we have a
> > > HUGE amount of hits, and the machine is already getting overloaded.
> > > PostgreSQL seems like a ressource hog. The machine is a bi-PIII 866Mhz,
> > > 380Mb RAM, Adaptec 2100s.
>
> 380 Mb of RAM for a "huge hits" MS SQL machine is way under spec'ed. It's a
> joke. 1 gb would be comfortable for MS SQL, esp since memory is so cheap now.

That was my feeling. If the machine started to swap, there isn't enough
memory. Given that it's dirt cheap at the moment (I can get 256MB for
A$55.00) I'd be loading the box with heaps of memory. You do not want the
box to swap.

Colin
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Colin Campbell
Unix Support/Postmaster/Hostmaster
CITEC
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