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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:49:08 -0500
From: Geoffrey <esoteric@3times25.net>
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Subject: Re: which Xeon processors don't have the context switching
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> 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?

As I've heard.  We're headed for 8 as soon as possible, but until we get 
our code ready, we're on 7.4.16.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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