Re: Wierd context-switching issue on Xeon - Mailing list pgsql-performance

Dirk Lutzebaeck wrote:

> c) Dual XEON DP, non-bigmem, HT on, E7500 Intel chipset (Supermicro)
>
> performs well and I could not observe context switch peaks here (one
> user active), almost no extra semop calls

Did Tom's test here: with 2 processes I'll reach 200k+ CS with peaks to
300k CS. Bummer.. Josh, I don't think you can bash the ServerWorks
chipset here nor bigmem.

Dirk