From: Steinar H. Gunderson <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>
To: Geoffrey <esoteric@3times25.net>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: which Xeon processors don't have the context switching problem
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:38:54 +0100
Message-ID: <20070223193854.GA9763@uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45DF3B15.1070609@3times25.net>
References: <45DF3B15.1070609@3times25.net>
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 02:05:57PM -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
> In searching the archives, I can't find any specific info indentifying
> which Xeon processors don't have this problem.
AFAIK the cut-off point is at the Woodcrests. They are overall much better
suited to PostgreSQL than the older Xeons were.
It's slightly unfortunate that AMD and Intel cling to the Opteron and Xeon
names even though they're making significant architecture changes, but that's
life, I guess.
/* Steinar */
--
Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Reply to all the recipients using the --to and --cc options:
reply via email
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Cc: sgunderson@bigfoot.com, esoteric@3times25.net
Subject: Re: which Xeon processors don't have the context switching problem
In-Reply-To: <20070223193854.GA9763@uio.no>
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
This inbox is served by DDX for PostgreSQL; see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox