X-Original-To: pgsql-performance-postgresql.org@postgresql.org Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 356FF9FB339 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 09:54:10 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 85683-01 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 09:53:52 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from smtp1-g19.free.fr (smtp1-g19.free.fr [212.27.42.27]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8301F9FB1E0 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 09:53:37 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [192.168.0.20] (pas38-4-82-233-120-60.fbx.proxad.net [82.233.120.60]) by smtp1-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43E8290B3C for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:53:25 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <44CDFD44.8080307@multani.info> Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:53:24 +0200 From: Jonathan Ballet User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060713) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Performances with new Intel Core* processors Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.816 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=SPF_HELO_SOFTFAIL, SPF_SOFTFAIL X-Spam-Level: *** X-Archive-Number: 200607/306 X-Sequence-Number: 20166 Hello, I've read a lot of mails here saying how good is the Opteron with PostgreSQL, and a lot of people seems to recommend it (instead of Xeon). However, it seems that new Intel processors, Core Duo and Core 2 Duo, performs very well, in desktop environment at least. I wonder what can we expect with them, do anybody have done any experiments with those processors ? Regards, Jonathan Ballet