Re: Libpq is very slow on windows but fast on linux. - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alban Hertroys
Subject Re: Libpq is very slow on windows but fast on linux.
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Msg-id A9318007-33B4-400B-BB5E-742F10DEC5BC@solfertje.student.utwente.nl
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In response to Re: Libpq is very slow on windows but fast on linux.  (Rob Brown-Bayliss <r.brown.bayliss@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Libpq is very slow on windows but fast on linux.  (Antonio Goméz Soto<antonio.gomez.soto@gmail.com>)
Re: Libpq is very slow on windows but fast on linux.  (John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com>)
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On 10 Nov 2010, at 5:19, Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote:

> 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.

Do both machines have similar hardware? If the Linux machine has a proper NIC (intel, for example) while the Windows
machinehas a poor NIC (Realtek!), then of course you would get differences in performance. 

I'm not saying Microsofts network stack is particularly good, mind you, just that it isn't necessarily the main cause.
Oneof the problems Windows is facing is that, while supporting a lot of hardware is a good thing in general, it also
supportsall the crap hardware, crap drivers and crap ACPI implementations. 

Alban Hertroys

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