Re: PostgreSQL scalability on Sun UltraSparc T1

["Luke Lonergan" <llonergan(at)greenplum(dot)com>]

Jochem,

On 7/29/06 8:02 AM, "Jochem van Dieten" <jochemd(at)oli(dot)tudelft(dot)nl> wrote:

> Tweakers.net has done a database performance test between a Sun T2000 (8
> core T1) and a Sun X4200 (2 dual core Opteron 280). The database
> benchmark is developed inhouse and represents the average query pattern
> from their website. It is MySQL centric because Tweakers.net runs on
> MySQL, but Arjen van der Meijden has ported it to PostgreSQL and has
> done basic optimizations like adding indexes.

Excellent article/job on performance profiling - thanks!

Back in March, Anandtech also did a Niagara article profiling web + database
performance:
  http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=2727&p=7

and the results for the T2000/Niagara were also lesser to the multi-core
Opteron.  Now maybe this article will help Sun to improve the processor's
performance.

- Luke