X-Original-To: pgsql-performance-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AF9311F610C for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 18:04:07 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 30703-10 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 18:03:57 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from candle.pha.pa.us (candle.pha.pa.us [70.90.9.53]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9659011F61C2 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 18:03:55 -0300 (ADT) Received: (from pgman@localhost) by candle.pha.pa.us (8.11.6/8.11.6) id k3PL3nM03949; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:03:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Bruce Momjian Message-Id: <200604252103.k3PL3nM03949@candle.pha.pa.us> Subject: Re: Large (8M) cache vs. dual-core CPUs In-Reply-To: <444E8DD8.3040504@commandprompt.com> To: "Joshua D. Drake" Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:03:49 -0400 (EDT) CC: david_list@boreham.org, pgsql-performance@postgresql.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL121 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200604/575 X-Sequence-Number: 18659 Joshua D. Drake wrote: > David Boreham wrote: > > > >> Actually, that was from an article from this last month that compared > >> the dual core intel to the amd. for every dollar spent on the intel, > >> you got about half the performance of the amd. Not bigotry. fact. > >> > >> But don't believe me or the other people who've seen the difference. Go > >> buy the Intel box. No skin off my back. > >> > > I've been doing plenty of performance evaluation on a parallel application > > we're developing here : on Dual Core Opterons, P4, P4D. I can say that > > the Opterons open up a can of wupass on the Intel processors. Almost 2x > > the performance on our application vs. what the SpecCPU numbers would > > suggest. > > Because Stone Cold Said So! I'll believe someone who uses 'wupass' in a sentence any day! -- Bruce Momjian http://candle.pha.pa.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +