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Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:19:37 -0700
From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
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Subject: Re: Major Linux performance regression; shouldn't we be
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> The serious problems with this appear to be (a) that Linux/Ext4 PG
> performance still hasn't fully recovered, and, (b) that RHEL6 is set to
> ship with kernel 2.6.32, which means that we'll have a whole generation
> of RHEL which is off-limits to PostgreSQL.

Oh.  Found some other information on the issue.  Looks like the problem
is fixed in later kernels.  So the only real issue is: is RHEL6 shipping
with 2.6.32?

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