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From: Steinar H. Gunderson <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>
To: fzied@planet.tn
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Répondre
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 12:52:23 +0200
Message-ID: <20060603105223.GB25615@uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200606031038.k53AcAR3014059@smtp2.planet.net.tn>
References: <200606031038.k53AcAR3014059@smtp2.planet.net.tn>

On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 11:38:10AM +0100, fzied@planet.tn wrote:
>> What version of PostgreSQL? (8.1 is better than 8.0 is much better than 7.4.)
> 8.1.3 on RHEL 4

OK, that sounds good.

>> Have you remembered to turn HT off?
> no !! what is it ?

HT = Hyperthreading. It usually does more harm than good on databases
(although others have reported differing results).

>>  Have you considered Opterons instead of Xeons? (The Xeons generally
>> scale bad with PostgreSQL.) 
> No can't have it

OK, that's bad -- it's probably the single thing that could have helped
performance the most.

/* Steinar */
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