Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:31:59 +0100 From: MaXX <maxx@mobistarmail.be> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: vermaden@interia.pl Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7 on old SMP server? Message-ID: <20071214183159.f8a39a6e.maxx@mobistarmail.be> In-Reply-To: <20071214114855.D93124B3243@f33.poczta.interia.pl> References: <20071214114855.D93124B3243@f33.poczta.interia.pl>
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On 14 Dec 2007 12:48:55 +0100 vermaden <vermaden@interia.pl> wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > I have an old netfinity 7000 (Quad PIII 500, 1Gb RAM) running 6.2 > > at the moment. I was wondering if it will take benefit of all the > > SMP improvement of 7 or is it too old? It runs a few postgresql > > databases, peak loads in the 2 to 4 range. [...] > FreeBSD 7 will be doing a lot better there, since FreeBSD 6 does not scale so well. > You may want to check these: > http://blog.insidesystems.net/articles/2007/04/11/more-is-better > http://blog.insidesystems.net/articles/2007/04/11/postgresql-scaling-on-6-2-and-7-0 > http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/4cpu-pgsql.png > http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/p3.png > Regards > vermaden Thanks for that, I guess it's time to update and re-test my backups before an upgrade to 7... I think I've found something to do next week-end... Now explore the changelog for any showstoppers. Regards and thanks again, -- MaXX
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