Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.184]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AC7437C6FD for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:23:29 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 85337-05 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:23:18 -0400 (AST) Received: from ipmail02.adl2.internode.on.net (ipmail02.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.141]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C405A37C6D1 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:23:22 -0400 (AST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Aj0KAIO1N0fLevdH/2dsb2JhbAAugS2OfA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,404,1188743400"; d="scan'208";a="226058302" Received: from ppp247-71.static.internode.on.net (HELO DevBox.local) ([203.122.247.71]) by ipmail02.adl2.internode.on.net with ESMTP; 12 Nov 2007 20:53:16 +1030 Message-ID: <47382991.3050708@Sheeky.Biz> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:53:13 +1030 From: Shane Ambler User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Macintosh/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: PostgreSQL vs MySQL, and FreeBSD References: <47344D43.5090506@geri.cc.fer.hr> <47347F9F.1070309@laliluna.de> <20071109140454.924e94b1.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <4734B884.9080501@cheapcomplexdevices.com> <5482c80a0711111127i79cfe651n4109a9fe3667b852@mail.gmail.com> <20071111234352.GE1894@uio.no> In-Reply-To: <20071111234352.GE1894@uio.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200711/173 X-Sequence-Number: 27588 Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 08:27:02PM +0100, Dimitri wrote: >> As well to demonstrate OS parallelism it's not so impressive to see >> 4CPU server results rather 8CPU or 32threaded Niagara... Don't know >> why they did not present similar performance graphs for these >> platform, strange no?... > > I guess it's because their Niagara support is still very raw, and besides, > it's not a very common platform. > > /* Steinar */ Not sure how much coding would need to be done for Niagra chips but I would think that it is more likely a problem of getting the funds so they can have one to work on. -- Shane Ambler pgSQL@Sheeky.Biz Get Sheeky @ http://Sheeky.Biz