Re: Linux v.s. Mac OS-X Performance - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Vivek Khera
Subject Re: Linux v.s. Mac OS-X Performance
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Msg-id 230DE264-6E9A-4E3A-BCD5-D2D44559F921@kcilink.com
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In response to Re: Linux v.s. Mac OS-X Performance  (Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com>)
List pgsql-general
On Nov 12, 2007, at 12:01 PM, Greg Smith wrote:

> Not the Mac OS BSD.  Last time I looked into this OS X was still
> dramatically slower than Linux on things like process creation.

On MacOS X, that's the Mach kernel doing process creation, not
anything BSD-ish at all.  The BSD flavor of MacOS X is mostly just the
userland experience.


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