Re: IBM P-series machines - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Matt Clark
Subject Re: IBM P-series machines
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Msg-id 416B7F4C.5070600@ymogen.net
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In response to Re: IBM P-series machines (was: Excessive context  (Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>)
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>As for "vendor support" for Opteron, that sure looks like a
>trainwreck...  If you're going through IBM, then they won't want to
>respond to any issues if you're not running a "bog-standard" RHAS/RHES
>release from Red Hat.  And that, on Opteron, is preposterous, because
>there's plenty of the bits of Opteron support that only ever got put
>in Linux 2.6, whilst RHAT is still back in the 2.4 days.
>
>
>

To be fair, they have backported a boatload of 2.6 features to their kernel:
http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/kernel26/

And that page certainly isn't an exhaustive list...

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