Running large DB's on FreeBSD

[Jim C. Nasby]

On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 08:15:04PM -0400, David Magda wrote:
> As for Postgres on FreeBSD, FlighAware seems to be using it some some  
> decent amount of data:
> 
> >. Receiving the data and processing it puts them about 6 minutes  
> >behind real time
> >. Generating one map can be done in about 160 milliseconds of CPU time
> >. Capable of generating several million maps a day
> >. About 1 TB of stored data
> >. Approximately 40 million position updates on air craft per day
> 
> http://joseph.randomnetworks.com/archives/2006/05/12/flightaware- 
> freebsd-and-postgresql/

And that's on a dual opteron with 12G of memory and a run of the mill
RAID10 (for the database that is).
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Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect                decibel at decibel.org 
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