From: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: josh@agliodbs.com
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org, Geoffrey <esoteric@3times25.net>
Subject: Re: which Xeon processors don't have the context switching problem
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:33:29 -0800
Message-ID: <45DF5DA9.90002@commandprompt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200702231330.57014.josh@agliodbs.com>
References: <45DF3B15.1070609@3times25.net>
<200702231330.57014.josh@agliodbs.com>
Josh Berkus wrote:
> Geoffrey,
>
>> I recall a reference on the list indicating that newer Xeon processors
>> don't suffer from the context switching problem reported last year.
>
> Just to be clear, it's a software problem which affects all architectures,
> including AMD and Sparc. It's just *worse* on the PIII and P4 generation
> Xeons.
>
Also isn't it pretty much *not* a problem with current versions of
PostgreSQL?
Joshua D. Drake
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