Re: Performance Tuning Article - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Dave Cramer
Subject Re: Performance Tuning Article
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Msg-id 533D107C-FDF0-4A6A-A88F-0751DCDDEA4D@fastcrypt.com
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In response to Re: Performance Tuning Article  (Keith Worthington <KeithW@NarrowPathInc.com>)
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My understanding is that it isn't particularly XEON processors that
is the problem

Any dual processor will exhibit the problem, XEON's with
hyperthreading exacerbate the problem though

and the good news is that it has been fixed in 8.1

Dave
On 23-Jun-05, at 8:16 AM, Keith Worthington wrote:

> Radu-Adrian Popescu wrote:
>
>>>
>>> There have been problems with Xeon processors.
>>>
>>>
>> Can you elaborate on that please ?
>> Thanks,
>>
>
> Not really as I do not understand the issue.
>
> Here is one post from the archives.
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2005-05/msg00441.php
>
> If you search the archives for xeon sooner or later you will bump
> into something relevant.
>
> --
> Kind Regards,
> Keith
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