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On 2012-10-08 23:45, Craig James wrote:
> This is driving me crazy.  A new server, virtually identical to an old 
> one, has 50% of the performance with pgbench.  I've checked everything 
> I can think of.
>
> The setups (call the servers "old" and "new"):
>
> old: 2 x 4-core Intel Xeon E5620
> new: 4 x 4-core Intel Xeon E5606

How are the filesystems formatted and mounted (-o nobarrier?)

regards
Yeb