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* Hyperthreading slows processes?
@ 2005-11-20 21:46 Craig A. James <cjames@modgraph-usa.com>
  2005-11-21 01:24 ` Re: Hyperthreading slows processes? Dave Cramer <pg@fastcrypt.com>
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From: Craig A. James @ 2005-11-20 21:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
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This article on ZDNet claims that hyperthreading can *hurt* performance, due to contention in the L1/L2 cache by a second process:

   http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39237341,00.htm

Has anyone tested this on Postgres yet?  (And based on a recent somewhat caustic thread about performance on this forum, I'm going to avoid speculation, and let those who actually *know* answer! ;-)

Craig



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* Re: Hyperthreading slows processes?
  2005-11-20 21:46 Hyperthreading slows processes? Craig A. James <cjames@modgraph-usa.com>
@ 2005-11-21 01:24 ` Dave Cramer <pg@fastcrypt.com>
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From: Dave Cramer @ 2005-11-21 01:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Craig A. James <cjames@modgraph-usa.com>; +Cc: pgsql-performance

Yeah, it's pretty much a known issue for postgres

Dave
On 20-Nov-05, at 4:46 PM, Craig A. James wrote:

> This article on ZDNet claims that hyperthreading can *hurt*  
> performance, due to contention in the L1/L2 cache by a second process:
>
>   http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39237341,00.htm
>
> Has anyone tested this on Postgres yet?  (And based on a recent  
> somewhat caustic thread about performance on this forum, I'm going  
> to avoid speculation, and let those who actually *know* answer! ;-)
>
> Craig
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