Thread: Re: [CYGWIN] Platform Testing - Cygwin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hannu Krosing [mailto:hannu@tm.ee]
> Sent: 14 December 2001 18:31
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: 'Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD'; lockhart@fourpalms.org;
> pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [CYGWIN] Platform Testing - Cygwin
>
>
>
> Dave Page wrote:
>
> >Although the original test was in Windows XP on a single
> processor box,
> >the final tests that all passed were on Windows 2000 Server
> running on
> >a Dual PIII 933MHz box with 1Gb of RAM. The motherboard is
> an MSI Pro
> >694D.
> >
> Has anyone done any tests comparing PostgreSQL on Win32 and *NIX
> platforms on
> same/similar hardware ?
>
> I suspect that the initial connect could be slower on Win32 due to
> reported slowness of
> fork() there, but are there other issues ?

I believe one of the guys at Greatbridge wroteup some benchmark results
comparing Cygwin/*nix. I don't know where they can be found though but I've
got a hunch Jason might have them(?).

Regards, Dave.

On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 07:47:40PM -0000, Dave Page wrote:
> I believe one of the guys at Greatbridge wroteup some benchmark results
> comparing Cygwin/*nix. I don't know where they can be found though but I've
> got a hunch Jason might have them(?).

All that I can offer is the following:

    http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-cygwin/2001-08/msg00029.php

and specifically:

    On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 05:50:10PM +0000, Terry Carlin wrote:
    > BTW, Up through 40 users, PostgreSQL under CYGWIN using the TPC-C
    > benchmark performed very much the same as Linux PostgreSQL on the
    > exact hardware.

Jason