Op 10-11-10 08:22, Alban Hertroys schreef:
> On 10 Nov 2010, at 5:19, Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote:
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>> Further testing shows it is windows networking causing the issue.
>> Copying files to and from the server is 5 to 6 times slower on a
>> Windows client compared to the Linux client.
>>
>> The issue is not specific to libpq.
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> Do both machines have similar hardware? If the Linux machine has a proper NIC (intel, for example) while the Windows
machine
> has a poor NIC (Realtek!), then of course you would get differences in performance.
>
Not that much, in the past I have seen differences in performance between Intel and Realtek,
20-30% yes, but never by a factor of 5 or 6.
Antonio
> I'm not saying Microsofts network stack is particularly good, mind you, just that it isn't necessarily the main
cause.
> One of the problems Windows is facing is that, while supporting a lot of hardware is a good thing in general, it
also
> supports all the crap hardware, crap drivers and crap ACPI implementations.
>
> Alban Hertroys
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