Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 00:59:43 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Brennan W Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net> Cc: Chris Phillips <chris@selkie.org>, Mitch Vincent <mitch@venux.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD SMP Message-ID: <20000512005943.B29302@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005112338400.1508-100000@home.offwhite.net>; from brennan@offwhite.net on Thu, May 11, 2000 at 11:39:23PM -0500 References: <20000511145256.O4889@fw.wintelcom.net> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005112338400.1508-100000@home.offwhite.net>
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> On Thu, 11 May 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > * Chris Phillips <chris@selkie.org> [000511 13:57] wrote: > > > You will need 4 Xeon processors to do the 4 way SMP. I do not believe > > > there is a database that runs native on FreeBSD and not through emulation > > > what would even be able to take advantage of all that processing > > > power. There seems to be very little documentation on FreeBSD's ability > > > to run Oracle. Perhaps the money that you were going to invest in > > > processing power would be better spent on some raid or ram. > > > > > > > Postgresql will. > > * Brennan W Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net> [000511 22:11] wrote: > Are you saying Postgresql will be able to use a quad processor system? Or > are you saying it is a processor hog? Postgresql is a multi-process database so queries should be spread out onto mutiple backends that will be scheduled on seperate processors. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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