Christopher Browne kirjutas N, 05.02.2004 kell 07:32:
> Oops! orion@trustcommerce.com (Orion Henry) was seen spray-painting on a wall:
> > Oh... as a side note I'm happy to announce that the 2.6 Linux kernel
> > has more than DOUBLED the speed of all my Postgres queries over the
> > 2.4. =)
>
> I did some heavy-transaction-oriented tests recently on somewhat
> heftier quad-Xeon hardware, and found little difference between 2.4
> and 2.6, and a small-but-quite-repeatable advantage with FreeBSD 4.9.
> Now, I'm quite sure my load was rather different from yours, but I
> find the claim of doubling of speed rather surprising.
perhaps you were just IO-bound while he was not ?
or starving on some locks ?
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Hannu
