PostgreSQL Discussion - Re: UltraSPARC versus AMD

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Re: UltraSPARC versus AMD - Slowaris

Mohan, Ross

2005-04-26, 8:23 pm

Richly deserved IMNSHO. my current employer was bilked for many many months
for a piece of crap E10K that barely outperforms a couple of AMD chips. But
at many, many times the price. We finally upgraded/migrated to AIX/g5 chips
and run what was run on 20 cpus on 2.

If Sun pulls out of its slow Icarus dive to near-certain death, it'll be
a miracle. ( And, I guess, that'd be "a good thing"; always nice to have a
miracle. )

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Subject: Re: [GENERAL] UltraSPARC versus AMD

Sun's stock was at $65.00 in late 2000 and has rocketed to $3.50. I think somebody else besides us noticed too.

pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org wrote on 04/26/2005 01:12:49 PM:

>
>
>
> Am i dreaming?,
> Solaris really good I/O performance?
>
> Have your heard of slowlaris?
>
> May be you mean hardware performance, combined with a great OS (BSD
> or
> Linux)
>
> I had to "upgrade" many Sunfire 280 (running slowlaris [8|9]) to BSD
because
> of poor DB performance, after the upgrade, all run flawlessly. I only
> wish a had made this switch before Just my $0.02
>
>
>
> We are talking about server or pc?, we run postgres on several HP
> dl380
(5i
> SCSI controller) with great performance
>
>
> i totally agree with this
> ---
> Miguel
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Scott Marlowe

2005-04-26, 8:23 pm

Maybe that's why used Sun E10ks with 12 CPUs and 12 gig of ram are going
for $5995 AND still not selling on ebay...

On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 15:27, Mohan, Ross wrote:
> Richly deserved IMNSHO. my current employer was bilked for many many months
> for a piece of crap E10K that barely outperforms a couple of AMD chips. But
> at many, many times the price. We finally upgraded/migrated to AIX/g5 chips
> and run what was run on 20 cpus on 2.
>
> If Sun pulls out of its slow Icarus dive to near-certain death, it'll be
> a miracle. ( And, I guess, that'd be "a good thing"; always nice to have a
> miracle. )
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Richard_D_Levine@ray
theon.com
> Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 3:12 PM
> To: mmiranda@americatel.com.sv
> Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org; pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] UltraSPARC versus AMD
>
>
> Sun's stock was at $65.00 in late 2000 and has rocketed to $3.50. I think somebody else besides us noticed too.
>
> pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org wrote on 04/26/2005 01:12:49 PM:
>
> because
> (5i
> your
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Ben

2005-04-26, 8:23 pm

"bilked" is my new favorite word.

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Mohan, Ross wrote:

> Richly deserved IMNSHO. my current employer was bilked for many many months
> for a piece of crap E10K that barely outperforms a couple of AMD chips. But
> at many, many times the price. We finally upgraded/migrated to AIX/g5 chips
> and run what was run on 20 cpus on 2.
>
> If Sun pulls out of its slow Icarus dive to near-certain death, it'll be
> a miracle. ( And, I guess, that'd be "a good thing"; always nice to have a
> miracle. )
>

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