Tom,
> This is really interesting. We had previously seen some evidence that
> the Xeon sucks at running Postgres, but I thought that the issues only
> materialized with multiple CPUs (because what we were concerned about
> was the cost of transferring cache lines across CPUs). AFAICS this test
> is using single CPUs. Maybe there is more going on than we realized.
Aside from the fact that the Xeon architecture is a kludge?
Intel really screwed up the whole Xeon line through some bad architectural
decisions, and instead of starting over from scratch, "patched" the problem.
The result has been sub-optimal Xeon performance for the last two years.
This is why AMD is still alive. Better efficiency, lower cost.
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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco
