Subject: Re: Michael: printing+reformatting hda13 from ext2 to hfs
From: Christopher Murtagh (christopher.murtagh@mcgill.ca)
Date: Thu Aug 23 2001 - 15:23:56 MDT
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Ruprecht, Chris wrote:
>I'm not sure how much RAM the current Macs can take, but surely, Memory
>is not really a subject any more - my PB Pismo memory went down to $49
>for a 512 MB (2-2-2 memory) module. 256 MB PC133, I saw for $25...
AFAIK, the bluish-grey G4s had a physical limit that maxed out at
1.5GB. I'm not sure about the latest line though, maybe this has improved
now that Apple is working with a more serious OS. So, if you can get a
machine with 4GB of RAM it will still out-do any Mac.
Also, what I might do if I were you is move your older data (the stuff
you said that was not likely to be accessed much) into different tables
than the current data (maybe as a batch job at night as the data becomes
'old'). This might make it easier for the current stuff to be cached and
speed up performance. This is just a guess though, not quite sure how
PostgreSQL would handle it.
Cheers,
Chris
--Christopher Murtagh Webmaster / Sysadmin Web Communications Group McGill University Montreal, Quebec Canada
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