Re: Performance Issues on Opteron Dual Core - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: Performance Issues on Opteron Dual Core
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Msg-id 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCEA0F957@algol.sollentuna.se
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In response to Performance Issues on Opteron Dual Core  ("Gregory Stewart" <gstewart@sweetdata.com>)
Responses Re: Performance Issues on Opteron Dual Core  (Jan de Visser <jdevisser@digitalfairway.com>)
Re: Performance Issues on Opteron Dual Core  ("Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com>)
List pgsql-performance
> > > FWIW, I've found problems running PostgreSQL on Windows in a
> > > multi-CPU environment on w2k3. It runs fine for some period, and
> > > then CPU and throughput drop to zero. So far I've been unable to
> > > track down any more information than that, other than the
> fact that
> > > I haven't been able to reproduce this on any single-CPU machines.
> >
> > I have had previous correspondence about this with Magnus (search
> > -general and -hackers). If you uninstall SP1 the problem
> goes away. We
> > played a bit with potential fixes but didn't find any.
>
> Interesting; does SP2 fix the problem? Anything we can do
> over here to help?

There is no SP2 for Windows 2003.

Have you tried this with latest-and-greatest CVS HEAD? Meaning with the
new semaphore code that was committed a couple of days ago?

//Magnus

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