Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 02:05:57PM -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
> > In searching the archives, I can't find any specific info indentifying
> > which Xeon processors don't have this problem.
>
> AFAIK the cut-off point is at the Woodcrests. They are overall much better
> suited to PostgreSQL than the older Xeons were.
>
> It's slightly unfortunate that AMD and Intel cling to the Opteron and Xeon
> names even though they're making significant architecture changes, but that's
> life, I guess.
AFAIR Intel has been calling their server processors Xeon since Pentium
Pro's, at least.
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