From owner-freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 16 14:56:36 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-database@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-database@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F03216A404; Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:56:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Axel.Rau@Chaos1.DE) Received: from mail1.chaos1.de (Mail1.Chaos1.de [213.160.12.53]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FCFD13C468; Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:56:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Axel.Rau@Chaos1.DE) Received: from claudius6.in.chaos1.de ([192.168.220.106]) by mail1.chaos1.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.44) id 1HSDr8-0007vv-51; Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:56:34 +0100 In-Reply-To: <000801c76757$4a6cf9e0$0204a8c0@jmlaptop> References: <000801c76757$4a6cf9e0$0204a8c0@jmlaptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <00E1DD54-6FED-4223-894C-A1B6CE6B9020@Chaos1.DE> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Axel Rau Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:56:32 +0100 To: Jan Mikkelsen X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Cc: freebsd-database@freebsd.org, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New Opteron box, dedicated to PostgreSQL X-BeenThere: freebsd-database@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Database use and development under FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:56:39 -0000 Am 16.03.2007 um 00:11 schrieb Jan Mikkelsen: > > Not that I'm aware of. FreeBSD doesn't have NUMA awareness. And fbsd does not allow to tie say a process group to a cpu? > >> 2. If there is no good solution for this problem, does it make sense >> to stay with one dualcore (soon quadcore) processor? > > Benchmark and see. Would be nice to know before I order the stuff.., > >> 4. Can I install the system on an Areca raid? > > Yes. If you are planning to use 6.2-RELEASE, make sure that you =20 > get the > arcmsr driver from 6-STABLE. The arcmsr driver in 6.2-RELEASE can =20 > show > I/O errors under high load. That's valuable info. Thanks, Axel --------------------------------------------------------------------- Axel Rau, =E2=98=80Frankfurt , Germany +49 69 9514 = 18 0