Received: from localhost (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.182]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 565D99FA0EF for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 22:19:07 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.182]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 67090-02 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 22:18:56 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from vms046pub.verizon.net (vms046pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.46]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26CE29F9F75 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 22:19:01 -0400 (AST) Received: from osgiliath.mathom.us ([71.246.251.8]) by vms046.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPA id <0JA300JJM7RI14Z1@vms046.mailsrvcs.net> for pgsql-performance@postgresql.org; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 20:18:54 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by osgiliath.mathom.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4276C70A95 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 21:18:53 -0500 (EST) Received: from osgiliath.mathom.us ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (osgiliath.home.mathom.us [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 5kBVdKnrzIbE for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 21:18:50 -0500 (EST) Received: by osgiliath.mathom.us (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2740170A9F; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 21:18:49 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 21:18:49 -0500 From: Michael Stone Subject: Re: New to PostgreSQL, performance considerations In-reply-to: <8a0c7af10612101702i49b5a533v4a2300d90d9dae6b@mail.gmail.com> To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Mail-followup-to: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Message-id: <20061211021847.GE16692@mathom.us> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mathom.us X-Pgp-Fingerprint: 53 FF 38 00 E7 DD 0A 9C 84 52 84 C5 EE DF 7C 88 References: <8a0c7af10612101141n2c7727c3r2f92345753960808@mail.gmail.com> <430d92a20612101336r3de8862coe618277fccb4006a@mail.gmail.com> <8a0c7af10612101702i49b5a533v4a2300d90d9dae6b@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200612/197 X-Sequence-Number: 22253 On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 11:02:44PM -0200, Daniel van Ham Colchete wrote: >I'm using Gentoo Linux, so all my libraries (including glibc that is >very important to PostgreSQL), and all my softwares are compiled with >good CFLAG options to my processor ("-O2 march=athlon-xp (...)"). My >Linux is not an Intel-AMD binary compatible turtle like >Fedora/RedHat/SUSE/... It's really important to have your GLIBC >compiled for your processor. It is essencial for performance. Please, point to the benchmarks that demonstrate this for a postgres application. Mike Stone