Received: from localhost (maia-4.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5201D9FC295 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:01:38 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 86184-03 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:01:34 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from cassarossa.samfundet.no (cassarossa.samfundet.no [129.241.93.19]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44F7D9FC18E for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:01:34 -0400 (AST) Received: from trofast.ipv6.sesse.net ([2001:700:300:1803:20e:cff:fe36:a766] helo=trofast.sesse.net) by cassarossa.samfundet.no with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HKgbi-00027Y-9Y; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:01:32 +0100 Received: from sesse by trofast.sesse.net with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HKgbF-0002Zw-00; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:01:01 +0100 Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:01:01 +0100 From: "Steinar H. Gunderson" To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Cc: Geoffrey Subject: Re: which Xeon processors don't have the context switching problem Message-ID: <20070223200101.GA9888@uio.no> Mail-Followup-To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org, Geoffrey References: <45DF3B15.1070609@3times25.net> <20070223193854.GA9763@uio.no> <20070223195318.GG20242@alvh.no-ip.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070223195318.GG20242@alvh.no-ip.org> X-Operating-System: Linux 2.6.19 on a x86_64 X-Message-Flag: Outlook? --> http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200702/257 X-Sequence-Number: 23311 On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 04:53:18PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: >> 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. > AFAIR Intel has been calling their server processors Xeon since Pentium > Pro's, at least. Yes, that was sort of my point. :-) /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/